2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 the Rocky Mountains Region” 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 the Rocky Mountains region, there were 1,053 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,678 and $16,511 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” 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.

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 the Rocky Mountains Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

Idaho State University
Pocatello, Idaho

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Idaho State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. ISU is a public institution located in Pocatello, Idaho. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 6 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science at ISU

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University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

#9 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Utah landed the #2 spot on the list. Salt Lake City, Utah is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s clinical laboratory science degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full University of Utah Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science Report

• 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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