2023 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Prep Programs in Arizona

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Medical Prep Major in Arizona for an Associate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Arizona, there were 533 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,177 and $24,329 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 5 health/medical prep programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,456 and $20,530 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Medical Prep Major in Arizona for an Associate” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in health/medical prep programs. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in health/medical prep programs.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Medical Prep Major in Arizona for an Associate” list to help you make the college decision.

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Most Well Attended Medical Prep Major in Arizona for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Medical Prep Major in Arizona for an Associate”.

Top 3 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Prep Programs in Arizona

1

Eastern Arizona College
Thatcher, Arizona

#16 overall quality in Arizona

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern Arizona College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Medical Prep Major in Arizona for an Associate. Eastern Arizona College is a small public school situated in Thatcher, Arizona. It awarded 5 associates’s medical prep degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Arizona Western College
Yuma, Arizona

#21 overall quality in Arizona

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Medical Prep Major in Arizona for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona Western College landed the #2 spot on the list. Yuma, Arizona is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s medical prep degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

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2

Tohono O'Odham Community College
Sells, Arizona

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tohono O’Odham Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Medical Prep Major in Arizona for an Associate list. Sells, Arizona is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s medical prep degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

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• Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Prep Programs in the Southwest Region
• Most Popular Associate 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.