2023 Most Focused Colleges for Chiropractic in California
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Chiropractic Major in California” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 2,881 people earned their degree in chiropractic, making the major the 244th most popular in the United States.
Across California, there were 296 chiropractic graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Chiropractic Major in California” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in chiropractic. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in chiropractic.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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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 “Schools Highly Focused on Chiropractic Major in California” list to help you make the college decision.
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Schools Highly Focused on Chiropractic Major in California
The colleges and universities below are the best for california chiropractic students.
Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Chiropractic in California
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Chiropractic Major in California that were part of this year’s ranking, Life Chiropractic College West landed the #1 spot on the list. Life Chiropractic College West is located in Hayward, California and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 182 ’s chiropractic degrees to qualified students.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Chiropractic at Life West
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Chiropractic Major in California that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern California University of Health Sciences landed the #2 spot on the list. SCU is located in Whittier, California and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 114 ’s chiropractic degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%.
Read more about Chiropractic at SCU
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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
- *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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