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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Utah” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Utah, there were 611 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,231 and $20,778 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 73 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,685 and $18,758 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Utah” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in clinical/medical laboratory science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in clinical/medical laboratory science.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for utah associate degree clinical laboratory science students.

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

1

Weber State University
Ogden, Utah

#7 overall quality in Utah

$19,437 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Utah that were part of this year’s ranking, Weber State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Weber State University is located in Ogden, Utah and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 70 associates’s clinical laboratory science degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.1% 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 Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science at WSU

2

Utah State University
Logan, Utah

#5 overall quality in Utah

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Utah that were part of this year’s ranking, Utah State University landed the #2 spot on the list. USU is a large public school situated in Logan, Utah. It awarded 3 associates’s clinical laboratory science degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Utah State University 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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