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2022 Best Value Health Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

1 Ranked Colleges
8 Degrees Awarded
$16,200 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Health Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Health Sciences & Services is the 42nd most popular major in the country with 31,648 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, health sciences and services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $34,571 and had an average of $24,129 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 3,822 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,993 and $21,462 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,970 and $95,025 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent health sciences and services programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the health sciences and services program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Health Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Health Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree health science students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Health Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at El Paso landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in El Paso, Texas, this large public school handed out 6 degrees to qualified doctorate’s health science students in 2019-2020.

UTEP did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Health Sciences & Services Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UTEP are $16,180, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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.

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