2023 Most Well Attended Health Science Major in Nevada for a Bachelor’s

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Health Science Major in Nevada for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 35,945 people earned their degree in health sciences and services, making the major the 34th most popular in the United States. 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 Nevada, there were 438 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,507 and $21,262 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 385 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,298 and $27,287 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Health Science Major in Nevada for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in health sciences and services. To top this list, a school must have a successful health sciences and services program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Health Science Major in Nevada for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for nevada bachelor’s degree health science students.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services in Nevada

1

University of Nevada - Reno
Reno, Nevada

#2 overall quality in Nevada

$33,211 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,262 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nevada - Reno. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Health Science Major in Nevada for a Bachelor’s list. Reno, Nevada is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s health science degrees to 381 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Health Sciences & Services at University of Nevada - Reno

2

Nevada State College
Henderson, Nevada

#4 overall quality in Nevada

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Health Science Major in Nevada for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Nevada State College landed the #2 spot on the list. Henderson, Nevada is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s health science degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% 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%.

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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

• *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.