2022 Best Value Alternative Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Alternative Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Alternative Medicine & Systems is the 160th most popular major in the country with 3,308 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, alternative medicine and systems graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $23,207 and had an average of $98,121 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 119 alternative medicine and systems graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $67,495 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 21 alternative medicine and systems graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,701 and $106,703 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent alternative medicine and systems programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the alternative medicine and systems program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

More Ways to Rank Alternative Medicine & Systems Schools

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 Alternative Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region” list to help you make the college decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

Best Value Alternative Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Alternative Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Alternative Medicine & Systems in the Plains States Region

#1

Northwestern Health Sciences University

Bloomington, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

$13,097 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northwestern Health Sciences University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Alternative Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region. Northwestern Health Sciences University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Bloomington, Minnesota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 8 doctorate’s degrees in 2019-2020.

NWHSU also made our “Best Alternative Medicine & Systems Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Northwestern Health Sciences University are $13,097, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full NWHSU Alternative Medicine & Systems Report

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Alternative Medicine & Systems

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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