2022 Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Health & Wellness is the 159th most popular major in the country with 5,006 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 706 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 71 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,689 and $18,419 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general health and wellness. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general health and wellness programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general health and wellness program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region associate degree health and wellness students.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness in the Far Western US Region

#1

Pacific Union College

Angwin, California

#1 in overall quality

$21,835 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Pacific Union College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region. This small school is located in Angwin, California, and it awarded 20 associates’s health and wellness degrees in 2019-2020.

PUC also made our “Best General Health & Wellness Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $21,835 for far western us region associate degree health and wellness students per year to attend Pacific Union College.

Read full report on General Health & Wellness at PUC

#2

American College of Healthcare Sciences

Portland, Oregon

#3 in overall quality

$22,266 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend American College of Healthcare Sciences. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region. This small school is located in Portland, Oregon, and it awarded 1 associates’s health and wellness degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at American College of Healthcare Sciences, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best General Health & Wellness Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. It costs about $22,266 for Far Western US Region Associate Degree Health and Wellness students per year to attend American College of Healthcare Sciences.

Read full report on General Health & Wellness at American College of Healthcare Sciences

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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