2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in West Virginia

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In 2020-2021, 7,984 people earned their degree in other health professions, making the major the 102nd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, other health professions graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $45,061 and had an average of $24,616 in loans still to pay off.

Across West Virginia, there were 715 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,205 and $8,250 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 604 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,789 and $17,466 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in West Virginia” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other health professions. That schools that top this list have a program in other health professions in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in West Virginia

The colleges and universities below are the best for west virginia associate degree health professions students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions in West Virginia

1

American Public University System
Charles Town, West Virginia

#1 overall quality in West Virginia

$34,395 Average Early-Career Earnings

$8,250 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend American Public University System. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in West Virginia. Located in Charles Town, West Virginia, this large private for-profit school handed out 604 diplomas to qualified associates’s health professions students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 98%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Other Health Professions at American Military University

2

Mountwest Community and Technical College
Huntington, West Virginia

#13 overall quality in West Virginia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in West Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Mountwest Community and Technical College landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Huntington, West Virginia, and it awarded 0 associates’s health professions degrees in 2020-2021.

Full MCTC Other Health Professions Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions

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.

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