2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Illinois

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In 2020-2021, 1,930 people earned their degree in acupuncture and oriental medicine, making the major the 287th most popular in the United States.

Across Illinois, there were 49 acupuncture and oriental medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 38 acupuncture and oriental medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,317 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Major in Illinois” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in acupuncture and oriental medicine. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their acupuncture and oriental medicine program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Major in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Major in Illinois”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Illinois

1

Pacific College of Health and Science
Chicago, Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pacific College of Health and Science. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Major in Illinois list. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this small private for-profit school handed out 17 diplomas to qualified masters’s acupuncture and oriental medicine students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at Pacific College of Health and Science

2

National University of Health Sciences
Lombard, Illinois

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend National University of Health Sciences. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Major in Illinois. National College of Chiropractic is a small school located in Lombard, Illinois that handed out 21 masters’s acupuncture and oriental medicine degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at National University of Health Sciences

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in the Great Lakes Region
• Most Focused Master’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

• *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.

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