2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Bioethics/Medical Ethics in the Rocky Mountains 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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Bioethics/Medical Ethics is the 133rd most popular major in the country with 5,115 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, bioethics/medical ethics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $27,334 and had an average of $18,277 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 1,685 bioethics/medical ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1,607 bioethics/medical ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in bioethics/medical ethics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in bioethics/medical ethics.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Bioethics/Medical Ethics in the Rocky Mountains Region

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University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

#9 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Utah. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. University of Utah is a large school located in Salt Lake City, Utah that handed out 1 masters’s medical ethics degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions
Provo, Utah

#7 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. RMUoHP is a small school located in Provo, Utah that handed out 0 masters’s medical ethics degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

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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.