2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Prep Programs in Massachusetts

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Massachusetts” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 9,210 people earned their degree in health/medical prep programs, making the major the 104th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, health/medical prep programs graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $28,184 and had an average of $21,459 in loans still to pay off.

Across Massachusetts, there were 354 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,764 and $27,938 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 33 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,931 and $13,427 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Massachusetts” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in health/medical prep programs. That schools that top this list have a program in health/medical prep programs in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Massachusetts

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Massachusetts”.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Prep Programs in Massachusetts

1

Dean College
Franklin, Massachusetts

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Dean College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Franklin, Massachusetts, and it awarded 15 associates’s medical prep degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Dean College Health/Medical Prep Programs Report

2

Quinsigamond Community College
Worcester, Massachusetts

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Quinsigamond Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Worcester, Massachusetts, and it awarded 18 associates’s medical prep degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Quinsigamond Community College Health/Medical Prep Programs Report

3

Springfield Technical Community College
Springfield, Massachusetts

Top 25% overall quality in Massachusetts

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Springfield Technical Community College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Massachusetts. Springfield Technical Community College is located in Springfield, Massachusetts and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 associates’s medical prep degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Health/Medical Prep Programs at Springfield Technical Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Prep Programs in the New England Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Prep Programs

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.