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Overview
Founded in 1995, Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine is located in a large city with a population of more than 250,000. It is in the Tucson AZ area.
Institutional Control
Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine is a private for-profit organization.
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Accreditation
Accreditation provides important oversight over a school's instructional practices and institutional stability.
Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine 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 November 16, 2003 - present)
- The accreditation was recently renewed on August 12, 2017.
- The next accreditation review is scheduled for February 28, 2022.
Programs
Master's Degree offerings at Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese Herbology
A program that prepares individuals for the independent professional practice of Chinese herbal medicine, a system based on the use of nutrition, natural products, and prescribed medical formulae to treat imbalances in the state of bodily health as defined in the Nei Ching Su Wen and other authorities. Includes instruction in the basic Western medical sciences, history and theory of Chinese medicine, Chinese medical anatomy and physiology, Chinese herbology, herbal prescription preparation, herbal patent medicine, herbal pharmacology, Chinese internal medicine and gynecology, febrile diseases, food therapy, 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 Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese Herbology by award level
Master's Degree
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 Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, then that is shown in blue.
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What can I do if I study Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese Herbology?
Below we list the careers that the US Department of Education suggests are best fits for people who studied traditional chinese medicine and chinese herbology. You can get an idea of salary and the level of education you'll need, as well as whether this is a growing or shrinking career field. Sometimes this list of recommended careers doesn't match what people who earned this degree are really doing. Our traditional chinese medicine and chinese herbology program page has much more information about the interplay between study in this field and possible careers. Select any table row to learn more about listed career.
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Costs
Graduate general costs
Here's a quick summary of costs to attend Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. You will find the most up-to-date information at their website for admissions.
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Historic Annual Costs
This chart shows an inflation-adjusted view of the costs for general full-time graduate students over time. The shading reflects charges within your comparison group over the same time period. Private and public universities' charges are difficult to compare due to the in- and out-of-state structure of public universities, and therefore we only compare Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine to other private schools within your chosen comparison group.
Graduate Assistantships at Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
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 Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine does not offer assistantships to its graduate students. We calculated this percentage by dividing the number of graduate assistantships offered at Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine by its number of full-time-equivalent graduate students.
Graduate tuition, fees, books, and supplies over time
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 Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine 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 $Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, so there would at most modest graduate-level academic scholarship campus-wide.
Classroom Experience
Student attention at Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
Schools are required to report the ratio of students per instructor, but look for a small number of students for every full-time instructor as your best indicator of personal attention and a modern well-integrated curriculum.
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Full-time and long-term instructors at Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
Full-time faculty are mostly likely to be on campus and available for interaction, and to craft up-to-date courses and programs. Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine has 20% full-time instructors, and 97% of the context schools have a higher percentage of full-time instructors. Faculty with multi-year contracts provide additional stability and commitment to the school and its students.Within the full-time instructors at Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, none have multi-year employment contracts. Of the context schools, 97% have instructors with multi-year contracts.
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Student Body
Study Types
All students are full-time. No students take distance education courses.
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Context: Student body size
Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine enrolled 35 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 Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine students important to you? You can see the breakdown in this donut chart.
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Gratduate student race/origin
Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine reports that 27% of students are minority, which is near the middle of the context schools. With 6% international students, this school has a lower percentage of international students than 85% of 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 Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
Context: Percentage of women
With 65% women students, Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine has a higher percentage of women than 88% of context schools.
Context: Student race/origin
Here is how Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine 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
Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine: 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.
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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?
Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine is a private for-profit school, meaning that its annual goal is to make a profit for its shareholders. The other types of schools are public or not-for-profit, and profit is not a goal.
Total revenue and expenses by category
We divided revenue and expenses for Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine into categories to give some insight to what may have influenced peaks and ditches in the chart above. The purple shades correspond most directly to student education. The blue shades, auxiliary expenses and revenue, are often related to room and board. We show investment gains and losses in apricot.
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