2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences in the Rocky Mountains Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 29,840 people earned their degree in general health services/allied health/health sciences, making the major the 33rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 782 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 15 general health services/allied health/health sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general health services/allied health/health sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general health services/allied health/health sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region”.

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

1

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

#9 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Utah. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. Located in Salt Lake City, Utah, this large public school handed out 15 degrees to qualified masters’s health studies students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%.

Full U of U General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences Report

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University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus
Denver, Colorado

#18 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Denver, Colorado is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s health studies degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences at University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus

• 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.