2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Laboratory Sciences & Medical Technology (Income $30-$48k) in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Clinical Laboratory Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Laboratory Sciences & Medical Technology is the 199th most popular major in the country with 3,695 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 353 laboratory sciences and medical technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 38 laboratory sciences and medical technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality laboratory sciences and medical technology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the laboratory sciences and medical technology program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

More Ways to Rank Laboratory Sciences & Medical Technology 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 Clinical Laboratory Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k” list to help you make the college decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Clinical Laboratory Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree clinical laboratory sciences students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Laboratory Sciences & Medical Technology (Income $30-$48k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Tarleton State University

Stephenville, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$15,485 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tarleton State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Clinical Laboratory Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k. This fairly large school is located in Stephenville, Texas, and it awarded 12 masters’s clinical laboratory sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

Tarleton did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Laboratory Sciences & Medical Technology Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Tarleton are $15,485, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Laboratory Sciences & Medical Technology at Tarleton State University

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Laboratory Sciences & Medical Technology (Income $30-$48k)

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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