2023 Schools Highly Focused on Chiropractic Major in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools Highly Focused on Chiropractic Major in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 2,658 people earned their degree in chiropractic, making the major the 175th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, chiropractic graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $40,463 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 529 chiropractic graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,274 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Chiropractic Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in chiropractic. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their chiropractic program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools Highly Focused on Chiropractic Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Chiropractic Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Colleges for Chiropractic in the Southeast Region

1

Sherman College of Chiropractic
Spartanburg, South Carolina

$28,770 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Sherman College of Chiropractic. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Chiropractic Major in the Southeast Region list. Spartanburg, South Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s chiropractic degrees to 105 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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%. 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.

Read full report on Chiropractic at Sherman College

2

Life University
Marietta, Georgia

$31,992 Average Early-Career Earnings

$30,375 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Life University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Chiropractic Major in the Southeast Region list. Life University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Marietta, Georgia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 392 ’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Chiropractic at Life University

3

Keiser University - Ft Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

$40,413 Average Early-Career Earnings

$36,640 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Chiropractic Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Keiser University - Ft Lauderdale landed the #3 spot on the list. Keiser University - Ft Lauderdale is located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 32 ’s chiropractic degrees to qualified students.

Full Keiser University - Ft Lauderdale Chiropractic 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Michael Dorausch.