2022 Best Value Colleges for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Minnesota (With Aid)

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 Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Schools in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,742 people earned their degree in acupuncture and oriental medicine, making the major the 276th most popular in the United States.

Across Minnesota, there were 47 acupuncture and oriental medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality acupuncture and oriental medicine 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 acupuncture and oriental medicine program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Value Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Schools in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Schools in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Schools in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Minnesota (With Aid)

#1

Northwestern Health Sciences University

Bloomington, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

$38,000 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Schools in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern Health Sciences University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Bloomington, Minnesota, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 22 diplomas to qualified ’s acupuncture and oriental medicine students in 2019-2020.

NWHSU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Schools in Minnesota” list.

The low student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at NWHSU

• Best Value Colleges for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in the Plains States Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Colleges for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (With Aid)

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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