2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions in Maryland

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Maryland” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Maryland, there were 126 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,367 and $19,217 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,303 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Maryland” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Maryland”.

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

1

Salisbury University
Salisbury, Maryland

#9 overall quality in Maryland

$35,486 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Salisbury University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Maryland. Salisbury, Maryland is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s health professions degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% 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%.

Full Salisbury University Other Health Professions Report

2

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

#1 overall quality in Maryland

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Johns Hopkins University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Maryland list. Johns Hopkins is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Baltimore, Maryland. It awarded 2 masters’s health professions degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Johns Hopkins Other Health Professions Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Focused Master’s 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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