2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Allied Health Professions in Pennsylvania

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Allied Health Professions is the 18th most popular major in the country with 82,308 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, allied health professions graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $53,436 and had an average of $20,148 in loans still to pay off.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 3,088 allied health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,167 and $24,259 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 26 allied health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,028 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Allied Health Major in Pennsylvania” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in allied health professions. That schools that top this list have a program in allied health professions in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Allied Health Major in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Allied Health Major in Pennsylvania”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Allied Health Professions in Pennsylvania

1

Moravian College
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Moravian College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Allied Health Major in Pennsylvania. Moravian College is located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 12 doctorate’s allied health degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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 Moravian College

2

Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#13 overall quality in Pennsylvania

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Allied Health Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Temple University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this large public school handed out 14 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s allied health students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% 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 full report on Allied Health Professions at Temple

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Allied Health Professions in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Allied Health Professions

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.