2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Prep Programs in the New England 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 New England region, there were 389 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,122 and $27,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 53 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in health/medical prep programs. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in health/medical prep programs.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in the New England Region

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

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

1

Regis College
Weston, Massachusetts

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Regis College landed the #1 spot on the list. Regis College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Weston, Massachusetts. The school has a small population, and it awarded 15 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Health/Medical Prep Programs at Regis College

2

Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts

#10 overall quality in New England

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Boston University landed the #2 spot on the list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s medical prep degrees to 38 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Health/Medical Prep Programs at Boston U

• Most Focused Master’s 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.