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

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Pennsylvania” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Pennsylvania, there were 509 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,145 and $18,995 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 50 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,136 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Pennsylvania” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in clinical/medical laboratory science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their clinical/medical laboratory science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Pennsylvania”.

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

1

Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#12 overall quality in Pennsylvania

$32,844 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Drexel University landed the #1 spot on the list. Drexel University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school has a large population, and it awarded 50 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science at Drexel

2

Neumann University
Aston, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Neumann University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Pennsylvania list. Neumann University is a small school located in Aston, Pennsylvania that handed out 6 masters’s clinical laboratory science degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Neumann University Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Focused Master’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

• *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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