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Overview
Specialized study in health professions and related clinical sciences is an instructional program in the health professions and related clinical sciences not specifically listed by the us department of education.
Highlights
School with the highest reported median starting salary ($59K) with a Bachelor's Degree: Kettering College
Career with the highest median salary ($104K) where most workers have a Bachelor's Degree: Wholesale and Manufacturing Sales Representatives
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Careers for program graduates
Specialized study in health professions and related clinical sciences majors work in these careers, which are sized by percentage of majors in the career (at least 1%) and colored by the predominant level of education.
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Current completions
What level of degree do most graduates achieve, and do they match what your goals?
Completions over time
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Salary and Debt
How are students who recently completed a degree in specialized study in health professions and related clinical sciences doing?
Below is the distribution of starting salaries along with accumulated federal and private education loans across schools that offer a degree in the field specialized health professions and related clinical sciences, which includes
specialized study in health professions and related clinical sciences.
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Context: median salaries
How does the median (middle) salary for health/medical specialized preparation majors compare to the median salaries for other college majors?
Distribution: health/medical specialized preparation majors' salaries by education level
What is the salary distribution for graduates with a bachelor's inhealth/medical specialized preparation by the level of their highest degree (Graduate degrees may not be in the same field as the bachelor’s)
We only include salary data when the survey error is less than 20%, so you may see only partial information for some categories.
Is a bachelor's degree all you need?
Education level of workers with a bachelor's in health/medical specialized preparation
Is a bachelor's degree going to be sufficient to make you competative in the job market? We can look at the education level of workers with a bachelors in this degree to see if there is a likely need for a graduate degree. You'll also want to check out the careers section on this page to where they are employed.
This chart shows the level of education of workers with a bachelor's degree in health/medical specialized preparation. The worker's graduate degree may have been completed in a different field.
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Context: Graduate degrees in any field by undergraduate ACS degree
About 48% of health/medical specialized preparation majors chose to also earn a graduate degree (possibly of a different major). The percentage of health/medical specialized preparation majors who also earned a graduate degree is higher than about 80% of other fields.
Context: Percentage salary boost obtained with a graduate degree
How important is a graduate degree for earning a higher salary? We can see the difference in salary of workers with a bachelors in this degree to workers with a bachelor’s AND a graduate degree.
Careers
Top careers for those with a degree in health/medical specialized preparation
Following are the most frequent jobs held by people who earned a bachelor's degree in Health/Medical Specialized Preparation (which combines 4 programs), though may not be limited to just those with a bachelor’s.
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Careers for health/medical specialized preparation majors
Where do health/medical specialized preparation majors work, and how well do those jobs pay? A ** in the job title indicates that the Department of Education recommends this job for this program.
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Dietitians and Nutritionists
Specialized Social Workers
Registered Nurses
Elementary and Middle School School Teachers
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors
Specialized Therapists
Veterinarians
Medical and Health Services Managers
Specialized Managers
Physicians
Social and Community Service Managers
Not so much?
The top ten careers for workers with a bachelor's in health/medical specialized preparation
Take a minute to interact with this sankey diagram. Follow the top ten jobs held by health/medical specialized preparation graduates through to their most hired majors. Learn where it may easiest to find work. Expand the careers to explore other majors that might lead to the job that excites you the most. *For many majors, the top ten jobs don't even include half of graduates!*
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What careers hire health/medical specialized preparation majors as one of their top 10?
To the left of this diagram, see all careers that hire health/medical specialized preparation majors as one of their top 10 majors, and on the right, see what proportion of openings for the jobs on the left are filled by health/medical specialized preparation majors.
Where can I complete this degree
Explore schools that offer specialized study in health professions and related clinical sciences degrees and certificates
You can use this table to find schools that offer this program based on location and program level offered. Each entry goes to a school page similar to this one with all our information about that school.
Understanding the columns
The school list includes a few facts about each school that give you an idea of the educational quality each school might offer:
Student-Faculty Ratio: A small number of students per full-time instructor suggests individual attention for each student and an up-to-date curriculum.
Satisfaction Rate: A high percentage of returning first-year students should correlate with satisfaction (schools call this their retention rate).
Repayment Rate: A high repayment rate means most alumni earn enough to make progress repaying loans within 7 years of leaving.
We also show the total enrollment for the school as measured by full-time-equivalent (FTE) students enrolled annually.
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Related Programs
Top 10 similar programs
Following are related programs, ordered by those with the highest number of completions. You can explore a full list by pressing the more details button.
- Health/Health Care Administration/Management
- Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences
- Health and Wellness
- Hospital and Health Care Facilities Administration/Management
- Medical Office Management/Administration
- Veterinary Medicine
- Health Information/Medical Records Administration/Administrator
- Specialized Study in Health and Medical Administrative Services
- Medical Informatics
- Medical Scientist
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Careers for health/medical specialized preparation majors
health/medical specialized preparation is part of a larger collection of programs: Healthcare Management and Professionals. Is there a different program that's close to health/medical specialized preparation that might be a better match for your interests? You can use this table to see a little about the programs that fall under this umbrella. If you click on any of the table headers, that will sort the table by that column, or click on a row and see Ididio's profile for that program.
Gender
Gender of recent graduates
Of all people with any degree in specialized study in health professions and related clinical sciences earned in the last academic year, 76% were women.
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Have completions by gender changed over time, or at specific levels of education?
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Context: Gender representation
How does the gender distribution in this major compare to all other majors?
Context: Percentage women
This major has a higher percentage of women than 77% other programs.
Distribution: salaries by gender
Does gender greatly influence your salary with this degree? The closer the bar are, the less discrepancy there is.
Context: Salary inequity
For health/medical specialized preparation graduates, men have a 7% higher median salary than women, This is better than many: 92% of programs have graduates with higher salary inequities.
Race/Origin
Race/Origin of recent graduates
Here is an overview of race/origin for all specialized study in health professions and related clinical sciences graduates from this last academic year. We found a lower percentage of international graduates than in 55% of other programs.
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Black
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Asian
American Indian
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Completions over time
Have completions by race/origin changed over time, or at specific levels of education?
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American Indian
Asian
Hispanic
Pacific Islander
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Context: Percentage of Minority Graduates
Minority students comprise a lower percentage of graduates than in 68% of other programs.
