2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science in California

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in California” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 18,901 people earned their degree in clinical/medical laboratory science, making the major the 93rd most popular in the United States. 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 California, there were 1,509 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,382 and $16,879 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,974 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in California” 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in California

The colleges and universities below are the best for california master’s degree clinical laboratory science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science in California

1

University of California - Davis
Davis, California

#11 overall quality in California

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in California that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Davis landed the #1 spot on the list. UC Davis is a large public school situated in Davis, California. It awarded 9 masters’s clinical laboratory science degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science at UC Davis

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San Francisco State University
San Francisco, California

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend San Francisco State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in California. San Francisco, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s clinical laboratory science degrees to 53 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full SFSU 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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