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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Orthotist/Prosthetist Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 335 people earned their degree in orthotist/prosthetist, making the major the 710th most popular in the United States.

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 “Most Well Attended Orthotist/Prosthetist Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in orthotist/prosthetist. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in orthotist/prosthetist.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Orthotist/Prosthetist Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Orthotist/Prosthetist Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular 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 be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Orthotist/Prosthetist Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s list. Northwestern University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Evanston, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 48 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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.

Read full report on Orthotist/Prosthetist at Northwestern University

2

Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern Michigan University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Orthotist/Prosthetist Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s. Eastern Michigan is a fairly large public school situated in Ypsilanti, Michigan. It awarded 21 masters’s orthotist/prosthetist degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Eastern Michigan University Orthotist/Prosthetist Report

• Most Popular 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.