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2022 Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k

2 Ranked Colleges
15 Degrees Awarded
$31,200 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k

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 “Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 7,767 people earned their degree in other health professions, making the major the 100th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, other health professions graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $39,856 and had an average of $27,421 in loans still to pay off.

Across Virginia, there were 312 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,800 and $24,750 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 15 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other health professions. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great other health professions programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the other health professions program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions (Income $0-$30k) in Virginia

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Commonwealth University landed the #1 spot on the list. Richmond, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s health professions degrees to 12 students in 2019-2020.

VCU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Other Health Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at VCU are $29,228, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full VCU Other Health Professions Report

#2

Old Dominion University

Norfolk, Virginia
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Old Dominion University landed the #2 spot on the list. Old Dominion University is a large school located in Norfolk, Virginia that handed out 3 doctorate’s health professions degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our virginia doctor’s degree health professions students whose families make $0-$30k list, Old Dominion has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Other Health Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Virginia” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Old Dominion University are $33,288.

Read more about Other Health Professions at Old Dominion University

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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