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2022 Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid

6 Ranked Colleges
103 Degrees Awarded
$23,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Master's in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Other Health Professions is the 100th most popular major in the country with 7,767 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 Pennsylvania, there were 815 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,650 and $26,749 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 103 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in other health professions. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other health professions programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the other health professions program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid.

Top 6 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions in Pennsylvania (With Aid)

#1

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Pennsylvania landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 17 masters’s health professions degrees in 2019-2020.

UPenn did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Other Health Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UPenn are $41,760, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Other Health Professions at UPenn

#2

La Roche University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, La Roche University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 16 degrees to qualified masters’s health professions students in 2019-2020.

La Roche did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Other Health Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at La Roche University are $18,920, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full La Roche University Other Health Professions Report

#3

Messiah University

Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Messiah University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid list. Messiah University is located in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 63 masters’s health professions degrees to qualified students.

Messiah also made our “Best Other Health Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list, coming in at #2. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Messiah are $12,780.

Read more about Other Health Professions at Messiah

#4

Saint Francis University

Loretto, Pennsylvania
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Francis University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid list. Loretto, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s health professions degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Saint Francis, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Other Health Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Saint Francis are $25,500.

Read more about Other Health Professions at Saint Francis University

#6 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid. PA College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It awarded 1 masters’s health professions degrees in 2019-2020.

PA College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Other Health Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at PA College are $16,128.

Full PA College Other Health Professions Report

#6

Widener University

Chester, Pennsylvania
#5 in overall quality

Widener University did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid ranking, coming in at #6. Located in Chester, Pennsylvania, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified masters’s health professions students in 2019-2020.

Widener did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Other Health Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Widener University are $24,810, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Widener University Other Health Professions 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

  • *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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