2022 Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas

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 “Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Arkansas, there were 247 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $123,800 and $107,611 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,332 and $22,750 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in health/medical prep programs. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent health/medical prep programs programs, but they also 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Prep Programs in Arkansas

#1

Harding University

Searcy, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$19,375 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Harding University landed the #1 spot on the list. Searcy, Arkansas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s medical prep degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

Harding not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Health/Medical Prep Programs Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” list. It costs about $19,375 for Arkansas Bachelor’s Degree Medical Prep students per year to attend Harding.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

Full Harding Health/Medical Prep Programs Report

#2

University of Arkansas at Monticello

Monticello, Arkansas

#2 in overall quality

$12,136 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arkansas at Monticello. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas list. Monticello, Arkansas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s medical prep degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UAM, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Health/Medical Prep Programs Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UAM is $12,136 for Arkansas Bachelor’s Degree Medical Prep students.

Read more about Health/Medical Prep Programs at University of Arkansas at Monticello

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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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