2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services in Florida

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Health Science Schools for an Associate in Florida” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Florida, there were 3,711 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,413 and $29,472 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 22 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,006 and $20,456 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Health Science Schools for an Associate in Florida” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in health sciences and services. 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The health science school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Health Science Schools for an Associate in Florida”.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Health Science Schools for an Associate in Florida

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Health Science Schools for an Associate in Florida.

Top 3 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services in Florida

#1

Gulf Coast State College

Panama City, Florida

#2 in overall quality

$2,779 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Health Science Schools for an Associate in Florida that were part of this year’s ranking, Gulf Coast State College landed the #1 spot on the list. Panama City, Florida is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s health science degrees to 16 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at GCSC, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Health Sciences & Services Associate Degree Schools in Florida” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Gulf Coast State College is $2,779 for Florida Associate Degree Health Science students.

Read full report on Health Sciences & Services at Gulf Coast State College

#2

Tallahassee Community College

Tallahassee, Florida

#3 in overall quality

$4,048 Average Net Price

$32,925 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Health Science Schools for an Associate in Florida that were part of this year’s ranking, Tallahassee Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Tallahassee Community College is located in Tallahassee, Florida and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 5 associates’s health science degrees to qualified students.

Tallahassee Community College also took the #3 spot in our “Best Health Sciences & Services Associate Degree Schools in Florida” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Tallahassee Community College is $4,048 for Florida Associate Degree Health Science students.

Read more about Health Sciences & Services at Tallahassee Community College

#3

AdventHealth University

Orlando, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$18,229 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend AdventHealth University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Health Science Schools for an Associate in Florida. Located in Orlando, Florida, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified associates’s health science students in 2019-2020.

AHU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Health Sciences & Services Associate Degree Schools in Florida” list. It costs about $18,229 for Florida Associate Degree Health Science students per year to attend AdventHealth University.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full AHU Health Sciences & Services Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services

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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