2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Orthotist/Prosthetist in the Great Lakes Region

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 “Best Value Orthotist/Prosthetist Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 354 people earned their degree in orthotist/prosthetist, making the major the 719th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 76 orthotist/prosthetist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 69 orthotist/prosthetist graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Orthotist/Prosthetist Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in orthotist/prosthetist. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great orthotist/prosthetist programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the orthotist/prosthetist program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Orthotist/Prosthetist Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Orthotist/Prosthetist Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Orthotist/Prosthetist Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Orthotist/Prosthetist in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Eastern Michigan University

Ypsilanti, Michigan

#2 in overall quality

$26,552 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern Michigan University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Orthotist/Prosthetist Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Ypsilanti, Michigan, this fairly large public school awarded 22 diplomas to qualified masters’s orthotist/prosthetist students in 2019-2020.

Eastern Michigan not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Orthotist/Prosthetist Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Eastern Michigan are $26,552, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Orthotist/Prosthetist at Eastern Michigan University

#2

Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$56,567 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northwestern University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Orthotist/Prosthetist Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region. Northwestern University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Evanston, Illinois. It awarded 47 masters’s orthotist/prosthetist degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Northwestern, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Orthotist/Prosthetist Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Northwestern University are $56,567, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Orthotist/Prosthetist at Northwestern

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Orthotist/Prosthetist

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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