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

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Tennessee” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Tennessee, there were 244 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,617 and $24,110 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,060 and $0 respectively.

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

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

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

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

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East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, Tennessee

#14 overall quality in Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Tennessee State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Tennessee list. East Tennessee State University is a public institution located in Johnson City, Tennessee. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full East Tennessee State University Other Health Professions Report

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The University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee

#3 overall quality in Tennessee

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Tennessee - Knoxville landed the #2 spot on the list. The University of Tennessee - Knoxville is a large school located in Knoxville, Tennessee that handed out 0 masters’s health professions degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.

Full The University of Tennessee - Knoxville Other Health Professions Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions in the Southeast 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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