2022 Best Value Allied Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Allied Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Allied Health Professions is the 15th most popular major in the country with 81,167 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, allied health professions graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $49,676 and had an average of $30,684 in loans still to pay off.

Across District of Columbia, there were 115 allied health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $91,050 and $92,266 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 43 allied health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,446 and $25,767 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Allied Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in allied health professions. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent allied health professions programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the allied health professions program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Allied Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia

The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia bachelor’s degree allied health students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Allied Health Professions in District of Columbia

#1

Howard University

Washington, District of Columbia

#2 in overall quality

$41,289 Average Net Price

$97,071 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Allied Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Howard University landed the #1 spot on the list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s allied health degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

Howard not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Allied Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” list. The estimated yearly cost for Howard is $41,289 for district of columbia bachelor’s degree allied health students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

Read full report on Allied Health Professions at Howard

#2

George Washington University

Washington, District of Columbia

#1 in overall quality

$33,719 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Allied Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, George Washington University landed the #2 spot on the list. George Washington University is a large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 41 bachelors’s allied health degrees in 2019-2020.

GWU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Allied Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” list. The yearly cost to attend GWU is $33,719 for district of columbia bachelor’s degree allied health students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. The low student loan default rate of 2.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Allied Health Professions at GWU

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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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