2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Science Major in District of Columbia

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Health Sciences & Services is the 34th most popular major in the country with 35,945 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, health sciences and services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,887 and had an average of $24,736 in loans still to pay off.

Across District of Columbia, there were 182 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $21,177 and $22,667 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 78 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,584 and $27,317 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Science Major in District of Columbia” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in health sciences and services. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their health sciences and services program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Science Major in District of Columbia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Science Major in District of Columbia”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services in District of Columbia

1

Trinity Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#7 overall quality in District of Columbia

$32,500 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Science Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Trinity Washington University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 47 bachelors’s health science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Health Sciences & Services at Trinity College

2

Howard University
Washington, District of Columbia

#6 overall quality in District of Columbia

$24,776 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,000 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Howard University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Science Major in District of Columbia list. Howard is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 31 bachelors’s health science degrees to qualified students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

Read full report on Health Sciences & Services at Howard University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s 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

• *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.