Online Masters Degree Programs in Health Science Ranked by Cost of Tuition

By Staff

There are 3 online masters degree in health science schools in the country. An average yearly tuition of $11,007 is charged by these colleges. The average tuition has increased, over the past few years, by 12.7%. The annual average tuition at these online schools in 2007 was $9,765.

A yearly tuition of about $14,076 is charged by the costliest online masters degree in health science college. The cheapest school however, charges students a tuition of $9,134 yearly.

  • Master of Science in Nutrition and Health Science – Dietetics: Management
  • Master of Science in Nutrition and Health Science – Dietetics: Nutrition
  • Master of Science in Community Health Sciences – Survey Research Methods
  • Master of Public Health in Community Health Sciences – Survey Research Methods
  • Master of Public Health in Community Health Sciences – Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology
  • Master of Public Health in Community Health Sciences – Behavioral Science and Health Promotion
  • Master of Science in Health Science – Clinical Research Administration
  • Master of Administration – Health Sciences
  • Master of Science in Community Health Sciences – Behavioral Science and Health Promotion
  • Master of Science in Health Science – Health Sciences

These least costly programs at UIC graduated roughly 42% of health science graduates with masters degrees from online schools around the nation in 2011. This represents 28,884 of the 68,630 graduates from across the country. From 2006 to 2011, the percentage of health science graduates with masters degrees from the most inexpensive programs at UIC has decreased. However, the number of graduates has increased by 1,356 graduates per annum.

Approximately 9%, or 6,144 of the nation’s health science masters level graduates, earned their degrees from these low tuition online programs at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in 2011. Thus, the number of graduates from these low tuition online programs at UMDNJ has increased by 100%.

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