2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Health Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences is the 43rd most popular major in the country with 26,642 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 2,386 general health services/allied health/health sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 147 general health services/allied health/health sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Health Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general health services/allied health/health sciences. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general health services/allied health/health sciences programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general health services/allied health/health sciences program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Health Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Health Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences in the Southwest Region

#1

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Edinburg, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$15,151 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Health Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region list. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is located in Edinburg, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 134 masters’s health studies degrees to qualified students.

UT Rio Grande Valley also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley are $15,151, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#2

Sam Houston State University

Huntsville, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$15,704 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Sam Houston State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Health Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region list. SHSU is a public institution located in Huntsville, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 8 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

SHSU also made our “Best General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at SHSU are $15,704, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences

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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