by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Connecticut” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 Connecticut, there were 670 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,475 and $35,127 respectively.
This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Connecticut” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in other health professions. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in other health professions.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Connecticut” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for connecticut health professions students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Goodwin College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Connecticut list. Goodwin is a small private not-for-profit school situated in East Hartford, Connecticut. It awarded 237 ’s health professions degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, Quinnipiac University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Hamden, Connecticut, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 362 diplomas to qualified ’s health professions students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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%.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Bridgeport landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Bridgeport is located in Bridgeport, Connecticut and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 39 ’s health professions degrees to qualified students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Yale University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Connecticut. New Haven, Connecticut is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s health professions degrees to 32 students in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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