2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science in Washington

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Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science is the 93rd most popular major in the country with 18,901 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, clinical/medical laboratory science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $42,036 and had an average of $19,885 in loans still to pay off.

Across Washington, there were 530 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,666 and $13,026 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 8 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,435 and $16,352 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Washington” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in clinical/medical laboratory science. That schools that top this list have a program in clinical/medical laboratory science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Washington

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Washington”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science in Washington

1

Clover Park Technical College
Lakewood, Washington

#9 overall quality in Washington

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Washington that were part of this year’s ranking, Clover Park Technical College landed the #1 spot on the list. Clover Park Technical College is a small public school situated in Lakewood, Washington. It awarded 7 associates’s clinical laboratory science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science at Clover Park Technical College

2

Shoreline Community College
Shoreline, Washington

#23 overall quality in Washington

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Shoreline Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Washington. Located in Shoreline, Washington, this small public school awarded 1 diplomas to qualified associates’s clinical laboratory science students in 2020-2021.

Full Shoreline Community College Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science 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

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