2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Alternative Medicine Major in the New England Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Alternative Medicine Major in the New England Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Alternative Medicine & Systems is the 167th most popular major in the country with 3,564 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, alternative medicine and systems graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $29,138 and had an average of $24,035 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 100 alternative medicine and systems graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,146 and $18,250 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 55 alternative medicine and systems graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Alternative Medicine Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in alternative medicine and systems. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in alternative medicine and systems.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Alternative Medicine Major in the New England Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Alternative Medicine & Systems in the New England Region

1

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Boston, Massachusetts

#19 overall quality in New England

$27,453 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Alternative Medicine Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences landed the #1 spot on the list. MCPHS University is located in Boston, Massachusetts and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 36 masters’s alternative 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 more about Alternative Medicine & Systems at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

2

University of Bridgeport
Bridgeport, Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Bridgeport. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Alternative Medicine Major in the New England Region. This small school is located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and it awarded 19 masters’s alternative medicine degrees in 2020-2021.

Full University of Bridgeport Alternative Medicine & Systems Report

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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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