2023 Most Popular Health Sciences & Services Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region
Finding the Best Health Sciences & Services Graduate Certificate School for You
With 35,945 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, health sciences and services is the #5 most popular major in the United States.
Today's healthcare students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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 Most Popular Health Sciences & Services Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in the Southwest Region to see which graduate certificate programs were the most popular for healthcare students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Health Sciences & Services program at each school on the list.
2023 Most Popular Health Sciences & Services Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the most popular for health science majors pursuing a graduate certificate.
Most Popular Southwest Region Schools for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Health Sciences & Services
Our 2023 rankings named Grand Canyon University the most popular school in the Southwest Region for health sciences and services students working on their graduate certificate. Grand Canyon University is a very large private for-profit school located in the large city of Phoenix.
Of the 12 students majoring in health science at Grand Canyon University, 33% are male and 67% are female.
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The in-demand graduate certificate programs at University of Tulsa helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular health sciences and services schools in the Southwest Region . Located in the large city of Tulsa, University of Tulsa is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
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The in-demand graduate certificate programs at American InterContinental University - Online helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular health sciences and services schools in the Southwest Region . AIU Online is a fairly large private for-profit school located in the rural area of Schaumburg.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at San Antonio landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the city of San Antonio, UTSA is a public school with a fairly large student population.
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State | Degrees Awarded |
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Texas | 2,485 |
Arizona | 232 |
Oklahoma | 257 |
New Mexico | 468 |
Health Sciences & Services Related Majors
Health Sciences & Services is one of 30 different types of healthcare programs to choose from.
Health Science Concentrations
Major | Annual Graduates |
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General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences | 29,840 |
General Health & Wellness | 6,105 |
Majors Similar to Health Science
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 4 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).
- Credit for the banner image above goes to Sandra M. Palumbo.
More about our data sources and methodologies.