2022 Best Value Health Science Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Health Science Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas” ranking.

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 Arkansas, there were 1,494 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,350 and $23,098 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,293 and $39,432 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Master’s in Arkansas” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Health Science Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Health Science Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services in Arkansas

#1

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Little Rock, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$14,884 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Health Science Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arkansas at Little Rock landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Little Rock, Arkansas, and it awarded 2 masters’s health science degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UA Little Rock, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Health Sciences & Services Master’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UA Little Rock are $14,884, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full UA Little Rock Health Sciences & Services Report

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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.

Credits

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

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