2023 Best Value Healthcare Master's Degree Schools in Maryland
Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
It's not easy to decide which healthcare program to enroll in when you have so many options available. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school or bootcamp that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.
To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Healthcare Degree Search has developed this Best Value Healthcare Master's Degree Schools in Maryland ranking. Our analysis looked at 11 schools in Maryland to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for healthcare students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.
For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
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Top Value Healthcare Master's Degree Schools in Maryland
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Our 2023 rankings named Stevenson University the best value school in Maryland for healthcare students working on their master’s degree. Stevenson, Maryland is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out master’s degrees to 62 students in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Stevenson are $8,340 per year.
Stevenson is one of the schools on our list that is primarily online. Each graduate student at the school took at least one class online.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Towson University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Healthcare Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland list. Towson is located in Towson, Maryland and has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 228 master’s degrees to qualified students.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Towson are $19,890 per year.
Online graduate courses are available at Towson, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. In fact, around 100% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
Towson did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Healthcare Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland list.
The excellent master’s degree programs at Bowie State University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value healthcare schools in Maryland. Located in Bowie, Maryland, the medium-sized public school awarded 53 diplomas to qualifed master’s degree students in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Bowie State University are $15,407 per year.
Bowie State University does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 96% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
Bowie State University did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Healthcare Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland list.
A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Frostburg State University is a great place for healthcare students working on their master’s degree who want the most bang for their educational buck. Located in Frostburg, Maryland, the small public school awarded 44 diplomas to qualifed master’s degree students in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Frostburg State are $13,092 per year.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Frostburg State does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. During the 2019-2020 year, about 83% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
Frostburg State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Healthcare Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland list.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Coppin State University. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Healthcare Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland list. Coppin is a small public school situated in Baltimore, Maryland. It awarded 41 master’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Coppin graduate students pay an average of $13,212 in tuition and fees each year.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Coppin does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 36% took at least some of their classes online.
University of Maryland Global Campus landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value master’s degree healthcare programs. This large public school is located in Adelphi, Maryland, and it awarded 210 master’s degrees in 2020-2021.
UMGC graduate students pay an average of $12,132 in tuition and fees each year.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since UMGC does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. In 2019-2020 about 91% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
With a ranking of #7, University of Maryland - College Park did quite well on this year’s best value schools for healthcare students working on their master’s degree. College Park, Maryland is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out master’s degrees to 125 students in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UMCP are $35,755 per year.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since UMCP does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. In fact, around 75% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
UMCP also took the #3 spot in our Best Healthcare Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland rankings.
Morgan State University ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Healthcare Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland list. Located in Baltimore, Maryland, the medium-sized public school handed out 18 master’s degree awards in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Morgan State are $17,559 per year.
Morgan State does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. In fact, around 40% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
Salisbury University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best value places for healthcare students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #9 on the list. Located in Salisbury, Maryland, the medium-sized public school awarded 16 diplomas to qualifed master’s degree students in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Salisbury are $15,765 per year.
You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at Salisbury. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 96% took at least some of their classes online.
Notre Dame of Maryland University ranked #10 on this year’s Best Value Healthcare Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland list. NDMU is located in Baltimore, Maryland and has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 34 master’s degrees to qualified students.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at NDMU are $13,711 per year.
NDMU does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 61% took at least some of their classes online.
Johns Hopkins University landed the #11 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value master’s degree healthcare programs. This large private not-for-profit school is located in Baltimore, Maryland, and it awarded 1,125 master’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Johns Hopkins are $61,202 per year.
Some students may be able to take online graduate classes at Johns Hopkins. During the 2019-2020 year, about 85% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
Johns Hopkins not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Healthcare Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland list.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 11 schools only.
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
More about our data sources and methodologies.
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