2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Prep Programs in West Virginia

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Medical Prep Schools for an Associate in West Virginia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 8,718 people earned their degree in health/medical prep programs, making the major the 91st most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, health/medical prep programs graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,843 and had an average of $24,525 in loans still to pay off.

Across West Virginia, there were 113 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,900 and $21,487 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 4 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great health/medical prep programs programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the health/medical prep programs program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Medical Prep Schools for an Associate in West Virginia” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Medical Prep Schools for an Associate in West Virginia

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Medical Prep Schools for an Associate in West Virginia.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Prep Programs in West Virginia

#1

Mountwest Community and Technical College

Huntington, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$8,122 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Medical Prep Schools for an Associate in West Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Mountwest Community and Technical College landed the #1 spot on the list. MCTC is a small school located in Huntington, West Virginia that handed out 4 associates’s medical prep degrees in 2019-2020.

MCTC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Health/Medical Prep Programs Associate Degree Schools in West Virginia” ranking. The yearly cost to attend MCTC is $8,122 for West Virginia Associate Degree Medical Prep students.

Read more about Health/Medical Prep Programs at MCTC

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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