2022 Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the New England region, there were 262 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 33 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,606 and $42,101 respectively.

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 a Master’s in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness in the New England Region

#1

Merrimack College

North Andover, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$31,296 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Merrimack College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region list. Merrimack is a private not-for-profit institution located in North Andover, Massachusetts. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 32 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Merrimack did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Health & Wellness Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Merrimack College are $31,296, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Merrimack College General Health & Wellness 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

• *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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Sandra M. Palumbo.

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