2026 Best Value Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Schools in the The Plains States Region
[Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine](/majors/health-care-professions/alternative-medicine-systems/acupuncture-and-oriental-medicine/) programs reward a close look at where your money goes furthest. The best values balance affordable tuition against strong post-graduation earnings.
For its 2026 best-value ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools to find the best return on investment for acupuncture and oriental medicine students.
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2026 Best Value Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Schools in the The Plains States Region
Below are the schools that deliver the strongest value in acupuncture and oriental medicine, balancing cost against outcomes.
Best Value Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Schools
For return on investment in acupuncture and oriental medicine, no school beat Northwestern Health Sciences University this year. Set in the city of Bloomington, Northwestern Health Sciences University is a small private not-for-profit institution. Students from in state pay about $12,015 in tuition and fees. Acupuncture And Oriental Medicine graduates carry a median of $19,500 in student loans. Early-career acupuncture and oriental medicine graduates make about $26,824. Weighed against typical debt, the earnings make a compelling case for value.
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Notes and References
The ranking above is published by College Factual (MF_RANKING_2025), 2026 edition. Schools are scored on the balance of cost (tuition and student debt) against student outcomes (post-graduation earnings) — a measure of return on investment, drawn primarily from the U.S. Department of Education (IPEDS and College Scorecard).
Ranking method: College Major Best Value · 2 schools evaluated.
*Averages shown above reflect the top 1 ranked schools only.
- 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).
More about our data sources and methodologies.
