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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Pennsylvania for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 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.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Pennsylvania for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in clinical/medical laboratory science. To top this list, a school must have a successful clinical/medical laboratory science program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Pennsylvania for a Master’s

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

Top 2 Most Popular 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 Most Well Attended Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Pennsylvania for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Drexel University landed the #1 spot on the list. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s clinical laboratory science degrees to 50 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science at Drexel University

2

Neumann University
Aston, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Neumann University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Pennsylvania for a Master’s. Neumann University is a small school located in Aston, Pennsylvania that handed out 6 masters’s clinical laboratory science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science at Neumann University

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