2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in the New England Region

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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 the New England region, there were 59 acupuncture and oriental medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 54 acupuncture and oriental medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Major in the New England Region” 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 the New England Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in the New England Region

1

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Boston, Massachusetts

#19 overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Major in the New England Region. MCPHS University is located in Boston, Massachusetts and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 36 masters’s acupuncture and oriental medicine degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at MCPHS University

2

University of Bridgeport
Bridgeport, Connecticut

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Bridgeport. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Major in the New England Region list. Bridgeport, Connecticut is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s acupuncture and oriental medicine degrees to 18 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at UBridgeport

• 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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