2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services in Pennsylvania

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Health Science Major in Pennsylvania for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Pennsylvania, there were 1,699 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,197 and $23,678 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,136 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Health Science Major in Pennsylvania for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in health sciences and services. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in health sciences and services.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Health Science Major in Pennsylvania for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Health Science Major in Pennsylvania for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services in Pennsylvania

1

Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#12 overall quality in Pennsylvania

$106,513 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Health Science Major in Pennsylvania for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Drexel University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 2 masters’s health science degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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 full report on Health Sciences & Services at Drexel University

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Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Health Science Major in Pennsylvania for a Master’s. Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s health science degrees to 102 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.6% 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%.

Full SRU Health Sciences & Services Report

• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Popular Master’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.