Alternative Medicine & Systemsbachelor's programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major degree program ranks #227 out of the 363 majors we look at each year. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Florida to determine which ones were the best for alternative medicine & systems students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 107 bachelor's degrees in alternative medicine & systems to qualified students.
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Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to alternative medicine & systems students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of alternative medicine & systems students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt alternative medicine & systems students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized alternative medicine & systems related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for alternative medicine & systems students working on their bachelor's degree.
The alternative medicine school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Alternative Medicine & Systems Bachelor's Degree Schools in Florida.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don't forget it.
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It is difficult to beat Everglades University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in alternative medicine & systems. Located in the city of Boca Raton, Everglades U is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the alternative medicine program report average early career wages of $26,847.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
