by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Maryland” 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 Maryland, there were 127 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $25,292 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 56 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,642 and $26,517 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Maryland” ranking, we looked at 4 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.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Maryland” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Maryland”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Coppin State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Maryland list. Coppin is located in Baltimore, Maryland and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 25 bachelors’s medical prep degrees to qualified students.
Full Coppin State University Health/Medical Prep Programs Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Frostburg State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Maryland list. Frostburg State University is a public institution located in Frostburg, Maryland. The school has a small population, and it awarded 31 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Health/Medical Prep Programs at Frostburg State
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maryland - College Park. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Maryland list. University of Maryland - College Park is located in College Park, Maryland and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s medical prep degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Johns Hopkins University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Maryland. Baltimore, Maryland is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s medical prep degrees to 25 students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, 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 97%.
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