2023 Most Well Attended Health Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 the Southeast Region for a Doctorate” 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 the Southeast region, there were 9,114 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,535 and $28,949 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 56 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Health Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in health sciences and services. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular health sciences and services programs in the United States.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Health Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree health science students.

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services in the Southeast Region

1

Nova Southeastern University
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Top 25% overall quality in Southeast

$91,905 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Health Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, Nova Southeastern University landed the #1 spot on the list. Nova Southeastern University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The school has a large population, and it awarded 51 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%.

Read more about Health Sciences & Services at NUS Florida

2

University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arkansas. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Health Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate. Fayetteville, Arkansas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s health science degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Arkansas Health Sciences & Services Report

• Most Popular Doctor’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.