Other Health Professions is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #78 most popular associate degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 5 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of other health professions. Combined, these schools handed out 734 associate degrees in other health professions to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Other Health Professions School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of other health professions for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality health professions 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
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. 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
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate 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 other health professions students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other other health professions students want to attend this school to pursue a associate 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 much debt other health professions students go into to obtain their associate 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 other health professions related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for other health professions students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Other Health Professions Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Other Health Professions Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Every student who is interested in an associate degree in other health professions has to look into Jackson State Community College. Located in the small city of Jackson, JSCC is a public college with a small student population.
Soon after graduation, health professions associate recipients typically make an average of $26,242 in their early careers.
American Public University System is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting an associate degree in other health professions. Located in the fringe town of Charles Town, American Military University is a private for-profit university with a very large student population.
Associate recipients from the other health professions major at American Public University System earn $6,759 more than the typical college graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.
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).