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Overview
Founded in 1990, Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley is located in a midsized city with a population at least 100,000, but less than 250,000. It is in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley CA area.
Institutional Control
Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley is a private not-for-profit organization.
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Accreditation
Accreditation provides important oversight over a school's instructional practices and institutional stability.
Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley holds an accreditation from one of the national accreditors. Credits earned from the national accreditors are often not accepted by schools holding the more prestigious regional accreditation, and it's important to verify that your credits will transfer if you are considering an eventual switch to another school.
Accreditation History
Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (Accredited May 4, 1998 - present)
Programs
Master's Degree offerings at Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley
Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
A program that prepares individuals for the independent professional practice of acupuncture, a Chinese system of health care and healing based on the use of pulse diagnosis, acupuncture point selection, and needle insertion, as well as herbs and other Asian treatment modalities. Includes instruction in basic Western medical sciences, Asian philosophy, Chinese medical anatomy and physiology, Chinese herbs, diagnostic techniques, patient observation and communication, acupuncture points and point selection, acupuncture techniques, acupuncture treatment of disease, pain management, practice management, and professional standards and ethics
Note: The name and definition of this program are based on Department of Education CIP code descriptions, which ensures uniform reporting across schools in the US. Please check this school's website for detailed program information and their specific course descriptions._
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Completions in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine by award level
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Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley graduate program details
Master of Science in Oriental Medicine Program
Recently College Scorecard released data on starting salaries and cumulative federal student debt for each school/program combination with sufficient graduates to allow for privacy concerns with data releases. Shown in the box plots below are data for all schools offering alternative and complementary medicine and medical systems (which may contain several related fields) by award level. If a value is reported for Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley, then that is shown in blue.
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Costs
Graduate general costs
Here's a quick summary of costs to attend Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley. You will find the most up-to-date information at their website for admissions.
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Historic Annual Costs
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Graduate Assistantships at Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley
Keep in mind that many graduate programs fund or partially fund their students through teaching, research, or other graduate assistantships. Some programs have provided graduate financial aid information that you can check for in the Programs section on this page. If we don't have that data, be sure to inquire with the academic department that interests you and do not assume you would have to pay full tuition for an academic graduate degree.
We believe that Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley does not offer assistantships to its graduate students. We calculated this percentage by dividing the number of graduate assistantships offered at Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley by its number of full-time-equivalent graduate students.
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Research
The library is the backbone of academic learning and research
A rigorous academic program requires that students and faculty alike are engaging in independent research, and that activity requires strong library support. You can get some useful information here:
- How strong and how balanced between traditional physical books and easily-accessed (but expensive) electronic journals and other resources is this library?
- How much is this library borrowing from other libraries? The number of interlibrary loans received can indicate the school's commitment to getting the resources on-campus researchers need, and also of the research activity on campus.
- How big a resource is this library to other libraries? A large number of outgoing interlibrary loans speaks highly of the value of its content.
The presence of a library in and of itself is a good thing. Increasingly, libraries are comfortable and inviting spaces for individual and group study sessions. Librarians can be incredibly friendly guides in your quest to find materials that aid your learning.
Comparison of library resources per student
How do the per-student library resources at Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley compare to other schools?
Comparison of library loans per student
A small library could make up for a small collection by allowing a large number of interlibrary loans to be received. An excellent library can show its strength by its number of loans given.
Research funding: the best indicator of post-baccalaureate academic rigor
Any school that reports at least $150,000 in research and development expenditures in a given year should have submitted out the Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey to the National Science Foundation (NSF). We did not find HERD data for $Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley, so there would at most modest graduate-level academic scholarship campus-wide.
Student Body
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About 58% of students are full-time. No students take distance education courses.
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Context: Student body size
Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley enrolled 121 students over the past academic year. The the student body size is smaller than almost all the context schools.
Gratduate student gender
Is the gender balance of Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley students important to you? You can see the breakdown in this donut chart.
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Gratduate student race/origin
Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley reports that 33% of students are minority, which is more than 74% of the context schools. This school's 1.1% of international students is near the middle proportion of international students within the context schools.
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Context: Gender Balance
It is very difficult for many types of schools to achieve a gender balance, and this context is valuable in evaluating the balance at Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley.
Context: Percentage of women
With 76% women students, Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley has a higher percentage of women than 97% of context schools.
Context: Student race/origin
Here is how Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley compares to the rest of the context group in terms of diversity in the student race and origin.
Student age distribution
Graduate students' ages may vary a lot from program to program, and we can only provide this statistic as a total for all graduate programs. In general, if the colors in the time chart lean towards lighter turquoise, you can surmise that this school is attracting students soon after they've completed their undergraduate degrees.
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School Finances
Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley: What its budget can tell you about classroom quality
Where a school spends and collects its money can suggest a lot about the educational experience it offers. The tabs below offer a look at spending that is important for the quality of your experience if you attend.
Instructional spending
Context and trends: Instructional expenditures per student
Instructional expenses are primarily the salary and benefits paid to the heart of a school: its full-time instructors. High expenditures in this area suggest care in hiring enough highly qualified full-time faculty to provide personal attention and up-to-date subject-area excellence.
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Does incoming revenue consistently cover expenses?
Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley is a private not-for-profit school. Along with publicly-controlled schools, not-for-profit schools do not have the goal of annual profit, but they do want to have healthy finances with adequate revenue to meet all expenses. On the other hand, private for-profit schools have creating a profit for shareholders as an annual goal.
Total revenue and expenses by category
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