2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Orthotist/Prosthetist in the Great Lakes Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Orthotist/Prosthetist Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Orthotist/Prosthetist is the 710th most popular major in the country with 335 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 69 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 $58,892 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Orthotist/Prosthetist Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in orthotist/prosthetist. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their orthotist/prosthetist program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Orthotist/Prosthetist Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree orthotist/prosthetist students.

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

1

Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

#1 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northwestern University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Orthotist/Prosthetist Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Evanston, Illinois, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 48 diplomas to qualified masters’s orthotist/prosthetist students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.

Read more about Orthotist/Prosthetist at Northwestern

2

Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Michigan University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Orthotist/Prosthetist Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Eastern Michigan University is a fairly large public school situated in Ypsilanti, Michigan. It awarded 21 masters’s orthotist/prosthetist degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Orthotist/Prosthetist at Eastern Michigan

• Most Focused 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

• *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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Barbara E. Carver.