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

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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 Utah, there were 445 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,783 and $11,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,613 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Health Science Major in Utah for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree 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.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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

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

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

1

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

#3 overall quality in Utah

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Utah. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Health Science Major in Utah for a Master’s. U of U is located in Salt Lake City, Utah and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 15 masters’s health science degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full U of U Health Sciences & Services Report

2

Utah State University
Logan, Utah

#5 overall quality in Utah

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Utah State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Health Science Major in Utah for a Master’s. Located in Logan, Utah, this large public school awarded 2 degrees to qualified masters’s health science students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full USU 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

• *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.