2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region

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General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences is the 33rd most popular major in the country with 29,840 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,443 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 9 general health services/allied health/health sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general health services/allied health/health sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in general health services/allied health/health sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree health studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences in the Great Lakes Region

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Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

#1 overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern University landed the #1 spot on the list. Northwestern University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Evanston, Illinois. It awarded 9 masters’s health studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences at Northwestern

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Ohio University - Athens Campus
Athens, Ohio

Top 25% overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Ohio University - Athens Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. OHIO Athens is a large public school situated in Athens, Ohio. It awarded 62 masters’s health studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Full OHIO Athens General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences Report

• Most Focused 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

• *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.

Credits

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