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2023 Most Popular Healthcare Doctor's Degree Schools in Arkansas

7 Schools Ranked

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for healthcare students. 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.

The Most Popular Healthcare Doctor's Degree Schools in Arkansas ranking is one of many tools that Healthcare Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 7 schools in Arkansas to see which ones were the most popular doctor's degree programs for healthcare students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from each school on the list.

Learn more about these popular schools below:

355 Total Awards
$9,462 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to be the most popular school for healthcare students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in Arkansas. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is a small public school located in Little Rock, Arkansas that handed out 355 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 55% of those degree recipients were women.

Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at UAMS. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 68% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

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#2

University of Central Arkansas

Conway, Arkansas
109 Total Awards
$6,773 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at University of Central Arkansas helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular healthcare schools in Arkansas. UCA is located in Conway, Arkansas and has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 109 doctor’s degrees to qualified students.

Of those students who received their degree, 79% were women.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since UCA does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. During the 2019-2020 year, about 70% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.

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#3

Harding University

Searcy, Arkansas
81 Total Awards
$11,080 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you attend Harding University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Most Popular Healthcare Doctor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas list. Located in Searcy, Arkansas, the small private not-for-profit school awarded 81 diplomas to qualifed doctor’s degree students in 2020-2021.

Of those students who received their degree, 67% were women.

Online graduate courses are available at Harding, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 31% took at least some of their classes online.

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69 Total Awards
$6,422 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Arkansas State University - Main Campus helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular healthcare schools in Arkansas. Located in Jonesboro, Arkansas, the fairly large public school awarded 69 diplomas to qualifed doctor’s degree students in 2020-2021.

Of those students who received their degree, 70% were women.

Online graduate courses are available at A-State, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. 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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#5

University of Arkansas

Fayetteville, Arkansas
28 Total Awards
$9,018 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you attend University of Arkansas. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Most Popular Healthcare Doctor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas list. This large public school is located in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and it awarded 28 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Of those students who received their degree, 86% were women.

UARK 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 84% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

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#6

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Little Rock, Arkansas
$7,594 Average Tuition & Fees

University of Arkansas at Little Rock landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the most popular doctor’s degree healthcare programs.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since UA Little Rock does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 76% took at least some of their classes online.

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137 Total Awards
$34,550 Average Tuition & Fees

Arkansas Colleges of Health Education came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Healthcare Doctor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas ranking. Fort Smith, Arkansas is the setting for this very small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctor’s degrees to 137 students in 2020-2021.

Of those students who received their degree, 45% were women.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 7 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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