2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Michigan

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Michigan” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Other Health Professions is the 102nd most popular major in the country with 7,984 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Michigan, there were 836 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,155 and $25,397 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 40 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,121 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Michigan” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other health professions. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in other health professions.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The health professions school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Michigan”.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Michigan

The colleges and universities below are the best for michigan master’s degree health professions students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions in Michigan

1

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, Michigan

#1 overall quality in Michigan

$209,842 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Michigan that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor landed the #1 spot on the list. Ann Arbor, Michigan is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s health professions degrees to 40 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Other Health Professions at U-M

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Saginaw Valley State University
University Center, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saginaw Valley State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Michigan list. University Center, Michigan is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s health professions degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.8% 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 more about Other Health Professions at Saginaw Valley State 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

• *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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