2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality
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Ranked Colleges
43
Degrees Awarded
$42,800
Avg Cost*
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In 2020-2021, 43 people earned their degree in patient safety and healthcare quality, making the major the 1130th most popular in the United States.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 43 patient safety and healthcare quality graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality Major” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in patient safety and healthcare quality. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their patient safety and healthcare quality program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree patient safety and healthcare quality students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality Major that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alabama at Birmingham landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Birmingham, Alabama, and it awarded 43 masters’s patient safety and healthcare quality degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full University of Alabama at Birmingham Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Chapman University landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Orange, California, and it awarded 0 masters’s patient safety and healthcare quality degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality at Chapman 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
- *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.