Ranked #30 in popularity, health sciences & services is one of the most sought-after bachelor's degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 27 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of health sciences & services. Combined, these schools handed out 1,619 bachelor's degrees in health sciences & services to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Health Sciences & Services School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of health sciences & services for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on health sciences & services students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other health sciences & services students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for health sciences & services to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized health sciences & services related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for health sciences & services students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Health Sciences & Services Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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It's hard to beat Boston University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in health sciences & services. Boston U is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Boston.
Bachelor's recipients from the health sciences & services degree program at Boston University earn $6,070 above the average graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.
Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in health sciences & services needs to check out Southern New Hampshire University. Located in the suburb of Manchester, SNHU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.
Those health sciences & services students who get their bachelor's degree from Southern New Hampshire University receive $29,583 more than the average health science grad.
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in health sciences & services. Located in the city of Boston, MCPHS University is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population.
Health Sciences & Services bachelor's degree recipients from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences earn a boost of around $12,964 over the typical earnings of health sciences & services majors.
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).