2024 Best Allied Health Professions Master's Degree Schools in South Carolina

If you pursue a master's degree in allied health professions, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #18 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Allied Health Professions Master's Degree Schools in South Carolina ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 242 master's degrees in allied health professions during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Allied Health Professions School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of allied health professions for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality allied health program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on allied health professions students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of allied health professions students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt allied health professions students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized allied health professions related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for allied health professions students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Allied Health Professions Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Allied Health Professions Master's Degree Schools in South Carolina list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Allied Health Professions in South Carolina

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in allied health professions.

Top South Carolina Schools for a Master's in Allied Health

1

Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC

86 Annual Graduates

$107,602 Median Starting Salary

Medical University of South Carolina is a great decision for individuals interested in a master's degree in allied health professions. MUSC is a small public university located in the midsize city of Charleston.

Master's recipients from the allied health professions degree program at Medical University of South Carolina get $34,084 more than the average graduate in this field shortly after graduation.

More information about a master’s in allied health professions from Medical University of South Carolina

2

University of South Carolina - Columbia
Columbia, SC

65 Annual Graduates

$39,435 Median Starting Salary

It's hard to beat University of South Carolina - Columbia if you want to pursue a master's degree in allied health professions. Located in the city of Columbia, UofSC is a public university with a very large student population.

Students who graduate with their master's from the allied health program state that they receive average early career income of $39,435.

More information about a master’s in allied health professions from University of South Carolina - Columbia

3

Charleston Southern University
Charleston, SC

32 Annual Graduates

Charleston Southern University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a master's degree in allied health professions. Located in the medium-sized city of Charleston, CSU is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a master’s in allied health professions from Charleston Southern University

4

Francis Marion University
Florence, SC

30 Annual Graduates

Francis Marion University is a great decision for individuals interested in a master's degree in allied health professions. Francis Marion University is a small public university located in the small suburb of Florence.More information about a master’s in allied health professions from Francis Marion University

Best Allied Health Professions Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Allied Health Professions Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	208	737
Georgia	190	265
Virginia	182	387
North Carolina	178	566
Tennessee	166	410
Alabama	151	137
Kentucky	147	161
Louisiana	147	101
Mississippi	145	41
Arkansas	121	102
West Virginia	112	95

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Allied Health Professions Related Rankings by Major

One of 34 majors within the Health Professions area of study, Allied Health Professions has other similar majors worth exploring.

Allied Health Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Physician Assistant	175
Athletic Training	39
Cardiovascular Technology/Technologist	28

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Nursing	369
Communication Sciences	111
Health & Medical Administrative Services	98
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	78
Public Health	61
Health/Medical Prep Programs	47
Mental & Social Health Services	40
Medical Illustration & Informatics	25
Medical Science	9
Bioethics/Medical Ethics	9

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.