2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in the Great Lakes Region

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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 the Great Lakes region, there were 1,941 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,400 and $24,247 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree medical prep students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Prep Programs in the Great Lakes Region

1

University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Top 25% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Chicago. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in the Great Lakes Region list. University of Illinois at Chicago is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 16 masters’s medical prep degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Health/Medical Prep Programs at University of Illinois at Chicago

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University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, Michigan

#4 overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, this large public school handed out 1 degrees to qualified masters’s medical prep students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.

Full University of Michigan - Ann Arbor 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.