2022 Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region
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Health/Medical Prep Programs is the 91st most popular major in the country with 8,718 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 the Southwest region, there were 1,291 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,900 and $17,707 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 547 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 8 colleges that offered a degree in health/medical prep programs. 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.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the health/medical prep programs program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region.
Top 8 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Prep Programs in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Skysong. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. ASU - Skysong is a public institution located in Scottsdale, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 125 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree medical prep students list, ASU - Skysong has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Health/Medical Prep Programs Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $13,971 for southwest region bachelor’s degree medical prep students per year to attend ASU - Skysong.
Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Oklahoma landed the #2 spot on the list. UCO is a fairly large school located in Edmond, Oklahoma that handed out 28 bachelors’s medical prep degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree medical prep students list, UCO has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Health/Medical Prep Programs Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $16,562 for southwest region bachelor’s degree medical prep students per year to attend UCO.
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Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lubbock Christian University landed the #3 spot on the list. LCU is a small school located in Lubbock, Texas that handed out 3 bachelors’s medical prep degrees in 2019-2020.
LCU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #6 on our “Best Health/Medical Prep Programs Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $24,128 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Medical Prep students per year to attend LCU.
Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Tempe, Arizona, this large public school awarded 231 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s medical prep students in 2019-2020.
ASU - Tempe did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Health/Medical Prep Programs Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Arizona State University - Tempe is $11,706 for southwest region bachelor’s degree medical prep students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Mexico - Main Campus landed the #5 spot on the list. University of New Mexico - Main Campus is a large school located in Albuquerque, New Mexico that handed out 6 bachelors’s medical prep degrees in 2019-2020.
UNM did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #7 on our “Best Health/Medical Prep Programs Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus is $14,446 for southwest region bachelor’s degree medical prep students.
University of Mary Hardin - Baylor did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #6. UMHB is a small school located in Belton, Texas that handed out 29 bachelors’s medical prep degrees in 2019-2020.
UMHB also made our “Best Health/Medical Prep Programs Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #5. The estimated yearly cost for University of Mary Hardin - Baylor is $27,099 for southwest region bachelor’s degree medical prep students.
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Abilene Christian University ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Abilene Christian University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Abilene, Texas. It awarded 1 bachelors’s medical prep degrees in 2019-2020.
Abilene Christian also took the #8 spot in our “Best Health/Medical Prep Programs Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $26,809 for southwest region bachelor’s degree medical prep students per year to attend Abilene Christian University.
Baylor University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking. Baylor is located in Waco, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 124 bachelors’s medical prep degrees to qualified students.
In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree medical prep students list, Baylor has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Health/Medical Prep Programs Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Baylor is $36,039 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Medical Prep students.
The student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, 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 91%.
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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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