2023 Best Value Health/Medical Prep Programs Associate Degree Schools in Idaho
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Health/Medical Prep Programs Associate Degree School for You
In 2020-2021, 40 degrees and certificates were awarded to health/medical prep programs students who went to a Idaho college or university. This makes it the #14 most popular major in the state.
When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for healthcare students. 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.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Healthcare Degree Search has created the Best Value Health/Medical Prep Programs Associate Degree Schools in Idaho to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in Idaho 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.
When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.
Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
Best Idaho Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Health/Medical Prep Programs
Our 2023 rankings named North Idaho College the best value school in Idaho for health/medical prep programs students working on their associate degree. NIC is a small public school located in the city of Coeur d'Alene.
NIC undergraduate students pay an average of $4,960 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
NIC also made our Best Health/Medical Prep Programs Associate Degree Schools in Idaho list, coming in at #3.
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The excellent associate degree programs at College of Southern Idaho helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value health/medical prep programs schools in Idaho. College of Southern Idaho is a medium-sized public school located in the town of Twin Falls.
In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at College of Southern Idaho are $4,560 per year.
College of Southern Idaho also took the #2 spot in our Best Health/Medical Prep Programs Associate Degree Schools in Idaho rankings.
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State | Degrees Awarded |
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Colorado | 19 |
Utah | 78 |
Montana | 34 |
Wyoming | 41 |
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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 |
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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 |
Most Popular Related Majors
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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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 2 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.