2023 Best Value Health/Medical Prep Programs Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Health/Medical Prep Programs Associate Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, health/medical prep programs students earned 303 degrees and certificates from a New Jersey school, making the subject the 10th in the state.

With all the healthcare programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Healthcare Degree Search has created its Best Value Health/Medical Prep Programs Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in New Jersey to see which ones offered the best value associate degree programs for medical prep students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Health/Medical Prep Programs Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for medical prep majors pursuing a associate degree.

Best New Jersey Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Health/Medical Prep Programs

Best Value Health/Medical Prep Programs Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Health/Medical Prep Programs Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Degrees Awarded
New York	57
Pennsylvania	670
Maryland	127
District of Columbia	49

Health/Medical Prep Programs Related Majors for Medical Prep

One of 30 majors within the healthcare area of study, health/medical prep programs has other similar majors worth exploring.

Medical Prep Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Other Health/Medical Preparatory Programs	4,010
Pre-Nursing Studies	2,489
Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies	2,010
Pre-Physical Therapy Studies	257
Pre-Pharmacy Studies	167
Pre-Occupational Therapy Studies	108
Pre-Dentistry Studies	85
Pre-Physician Assistant	76
Pre-Art Therapy	4
Pre-Optometry Studies	3
Pre-Chiropractic Studies	1

Majors Similar to Medical Prep

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Nursing	322,592
Health & Medical Administrative Services	89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services	84,492
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants	84,274
Allied Health Professions	82,308

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 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 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.