2023 Most Focused Colleges for Other Health Professions in North Carolina

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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 North Carolina, there were 100 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,853 and $20,673 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in North Carolina” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other health professions. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their other health professions program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in North Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in North Carolina”.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Other Health Professions in North Carolina

1

University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Wilmington, North Carolina

#9 overall quality in North Carolina

$37,326 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,102 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Carolina at Wilmington. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in North Carolina list. Located in Wilmington, North Carolina, this fairly large public school awarded 83 degrees to qualified ’s health professions students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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 UNCW

2

Campbell University
Buies Creek, North Carolina

#23 overall quality in North Carolina

$48,312 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,074 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Campbell University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in North Carolina list. This medium-sized school is located in Buies Creek, North Carolina, and it awarded 17 ’s health professions degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Other Health Professions at Campbell 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.

Credits

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