2022 Best Value Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine is the 276th most popular major in the country with 1,742 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 115 acupuncture and oriental medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 47 acupuncture and oriental medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,970 and $95,025 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent acupuncture and oriental medicine programs, but they also cost less that 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree acupuncture and oriental medicine students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in the Southwest Region

#1

AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine

Austin, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$17,763 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine landed the #1 spot on the list. Austin, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out doctorate’s acupuncture and oriental medicine degrees to 23 students in 2019-2020.

AOMA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine are $17,763.

Read full report on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine

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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