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

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Health/Medical Prep Programs is the 104th most popular major in the country with 9,210 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Arizona, there were 533 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,177 and $24,329 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 5 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,456 and $20,530 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Arizona” 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 Arizona

The colleges and universities below are the best for arizona associate degree medical prep students.

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

1

Eastern Arizona College
Thatcher, Arizona

#16 overall quality in Arizona

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern Arizona College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Arizona. Eastern Arizona College is a small public school situated in Thatcher, Arizona. It awarded 5 associates’s medical prep degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Arizona Western College
Yuma, Arizona

#21 overall quality in Arizona

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Arizona that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona Western College landed the #2 spot on the list. AWC is a medium-sized public school situated in Yuma, Arizona. It awarded 0 associates’s medical prep degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Tohono O'Odham Community College
Sells, Arizona

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Arizona that were part of this year’s ranking, Tohono O’Odham Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Tohono O’Odham Community College is a small school located in Sells, Arizona that handed out 0 associates’s medical prep degrees in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Prep Programs in the Southwest 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.