2025 Best General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
10Colleges in the Plains States Region
330Associate Degrees
If you pursue a associate degree in general health services/allied health/health sciences, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #12 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 10 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 330 associate degrees in general health services/allied health/health sciences to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences School for Your Associate Degree
The health studies associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality health studies program can vary widely even among the top schools. 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 account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
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 general health services/allied health/health sciences students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general health services/allied health/health sciences students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general health services/allied health/health sciences related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general health services/allied health/health sciences students working on their associate degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences Related Rankings by Major
One of 1 majors within the Health Sciences & Services area of study, General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences has other similar majors worth exploring.
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).