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

4 Ranked Colleges
16 Degrees Awarded
$22,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor's in Missouri

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Missouri” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Missouri, there were 186 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $16,619 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,837 and $25,380 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in Missouri” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree 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.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the health/medical prep programs program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The medical prep school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in Missouri”.

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

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

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Prep Programs in Missouri

#1

Avila University

Kansas City, Missouri

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Avila University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in Missouri. Located in Kansas City, Missouri, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s medical prep students in 2019-2020.

Avila did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Health/Medical Prep Programs Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Missouri” list. The estimated yearly cost for Avila University is $17,048 for missouri bachelor’s degree medical prep students.

Read more about Health/Medical Prep Programs at Avila

#2

Maryville University of Saint Louis

Saint Louis, Missouri
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in Missouri that were part of this year’s ranking, Maryville University of Saint Louis landed the #2 spot on the list. Saint Louis, Missouri is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s medical prep degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

Maryville U also took the #2 spot in our “Best Health/Medical Prep Programs Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Missouri” ranking. It costs about $29,064 for Missouri Bachelor’s Degree Medical Prep students per year to attend Maryville University of Saint Louis.

The low student loan default rate of 2.4% 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%.

Read more about Health/Medical Prep Programs at Maryville U

#3

Fontbonne University

Saint Louis, Missouri
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Fontbonne University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in Missouri. This small school is located in Saint Louis, Missouri, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s medical prep degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Fontbonne University, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Health/Medical Prep Programs Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Missouri” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Fontbonne University is $15,961 for Missouri Bachelor’s Degree Medical Prep students.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Health/Medical Prep Programs at Fontbonne University

#4

Washington University in St Louis

Saint Louis, Missouri
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Washington University in St Louis. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Medical Prep Schools for a Bachelor’s in Missouri. Washington University in St Louis is a fairly large school located in Saint Louis, Missouri that handed out 2 bachelors’s medical prep degrees in 2019-2020.

WUSTL not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Health/Medical Prep Programs Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Missouri” list. It costs about $26,869 for Missouri Bachelor’s Degree Medical Prep students per year to attend Washington University in St Louis.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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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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