2023 Most Focused Colleges for Health/Medical Prep Programs in Minnesota

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Minnesota” ranking.

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 Minnesota, there were 27 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Minnesota” 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 Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Minnesota

The colleges and universities below are the best for minnesota medical prep students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Health/Medical Prep Programs in Minnesota

1

University of Northwestern - St Paul
Saint Paul, Minnesota

#23 overall quality in Minnesota

$40,805 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,408 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Northwestern - St Paul. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Minnesota list. Northwestern is a small school located in Saint Paul, Minnesota that handed out 11 ’s medical prep degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Health/Medical Prep Programs at Northwestern

2

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
Winona, Minnesota

#9 overall quality in Minnesota

$56,065 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,794 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Medical Prep Major in Minnesota that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota landed the #2 spot on the list. SMU MN is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Winona, Minnesota. It awarded 16 ’s medical prep degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Health/Medical Prep Programs at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota

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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.