2023 Best Value Healthcare Master's Degree Schools in West Virginia
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices
With all the healthcare programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school or bootcamp to be a better alternative for you.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Healthcare Degree Search has created the Best Value Healthcare Master's Degree Schools in West Virginia to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 6 schools in West Virginia to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for healthcare 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.
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Top Value Healthcare Master's Degree Schools in West Virginia
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Our 2023 rankings named West Liberty University the best value school in West Virginia for healthcare students working on their master’s degree. West Liberty, West Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out master’s degrees to 21 students in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at West Liberty University are $8,280 per year.
West Liberty University does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. In 2019-2020 about 61% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, West Liberty University is ranked #1 for overall quality in West Virginia.
The excellent master’s degree programs at American Public University System helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value healthcare schools in West Virginia. This large private for-profit school is located in Charles Town, West Virginia, and it awarded 111 master’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at American Military University are $7,050 per year.
Since the graduate programs at American Military University are primarily online, it is a great choice for returning adults and students who work full time.
American Military University also took the #4 spot in our Best Healthcare Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia rankings.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wheeling University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Healthcare Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia list. This very small private not-for-profit school is located in Wheeling, West Virginia, and it awarded 25 master’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Wheeling University are $10,160 a year.
Wheeling University is one of the schools on our list that is primarily online. Each graduate student at the school took at least one class online.
Wheeling University also took the #3 spot in our Best Healthcare Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia rankings.
A rank of #4 on this year’s list means West Virginia University is a great place for healthcare students working on their master’s degree who want the most bang for their educational buck. WVU is a public institution located in Morgantown, West Virginia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 221 master’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at WVU are $26,676 a year.
You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at WVU. In 2019-2020 about 81% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
WVU did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Healthcare Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia list.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend West Virginia Wesleyan College. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Healthcare Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia list. Buckhannon, West Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out master’s degrees to 21 students in 2020-2021.
West Virginia Wesleyan graduate students pay an average of $12,222 in tuition and fees each year.
Since the graduate programs at West Virginia Wesleyan are primarily online, it is a great choice for returning adults and students who work full time.
West Virginia Wesleyan did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Healthcare Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia list.
Marshall University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Healthcare Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia ranking. Marshall University is a fairly large public school located in Huntington, West Virginia that handed out 161 master’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Marshall University are $21,434 a year.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Marshall University does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 83% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
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Notes and References
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*These averages are for the top 6 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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