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.

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

Check out the medical prep associate degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

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

Best Value Health/Medical Prep Programs Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

State	Degrees Awarded
Colorado	19
Utah	78
Montana	34
Wyoming	41

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

Most Popular Related Majors

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 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.