2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Prep Programs in Washington

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Washington” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Washington, there were 144 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,408 and $19,702 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 136 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,905 and $22,558 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Washington” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in health/medical prep programs. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their health/medical prep programs program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Washington

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Washington”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Prep Programs in Washington

1

Central Washington University
Ellensburg, Washington

#5 overall quality in Washington

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central Washington University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Washington list. This fairly large school is located in Ellensburg, Washington, and it awarded 64 bachelors’s medical prep degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Health/Medical Prep Programs at CWU

2

Western Washington University
Bellingham, Washington

#7 overall quality in Washington

$26,408 Average Early-Career Earnings

$19,702 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Washington University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Washington. Western Washington University is a fairly large school located in Bellingham, Washington that handed out 62 bachelors’s medical prep degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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 full report on Health/Medical Prep Programs at Western Washington University

3

Seattle Pacific University
Seattle, Washington

#11 overall quality in Washington

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Seattle Pacific University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Washington. Seattle Pacific University is located in Seattle, Washington and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 bachelors’s medical prep degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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%.

Full Seattle Pacific University Health/Medical Prep Programs Report

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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

• *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.