2022 Best Value Athletic Trainer Schools for a Master’s in Michigan

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Athletic Trainer Schools for a Master’s in Michigan” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Athletic Training is the 142nd most popular major in the country with 4,467 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Michigan, there were 139 athletic training graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 25 athletic training graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,608 and $41,198 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Athletic Trainer Schools for a Master’s in Michigan” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in athletic training. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality athletic training programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the athletic training program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Athletic Trainer Schools for a Master’s in Michigan

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Athletic Trainer Schools for a Master’s in Michigan.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Athletic Training in Michigan

#1

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, Michigan

#1 in overall quality

$31,355 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Michigan University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Athletic Trainer Schools for a Master’s in Michigan list. Western Michigan University is a public institution located in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

WMU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Athletic Training Master’s Degree Schools in Michigan” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at WMU are $31,355.

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#2

Wayne State University

Detroit, Michigan

#2 in overall quality

$37,215 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wayne State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Athletic Trainer Schools for a Master’s in Michigan list. Detroit, Michigan is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s athletic trainer degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

Wayne State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Athletic Training Master’s Degree Schools in Michigan” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Wayne State are $37,215, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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