2022 Best Value Clinical Laboratory Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Clinical Laboratory Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science is the 97th most popular major in the country with 17,129 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, clinical/medical laboratory science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $38,047 and had an average of $17,559 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 2,382 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,600 and $15,746 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,970 and $95,025 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent clinical/medical laboratory science programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the clinical/medical laboratory science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

More Ways to Rank Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Clinical Laboratory Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Clinical Laboratory Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree clinical laboratory science students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science in the Southwest Region

#1

The University of Texas Medical Branch

Galveston, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$17,500 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Clinical Laboratory Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas Medical Branch landed the #1 spot on the list. Galveston, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s clinical laboratory science degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

UTMB Galveston also made our “Best Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at The University of Texas Medical Branch are $17,500.

Read more about Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science at The University of Texas Medical Branch

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science

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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Staff Sgt. Jerilyn Quintanilla.

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