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2023 Best Value Alternative Medicine & Systems Doctor's Degree Schools in California

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

5 Colleges
$20,434 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$32,370 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Alternative Medicine & Systems Doctor's Degree School for You

With 990 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, alternative medicine and systems is the #29 most popular major in California.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. 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 that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Alternative Medicine & Systems Doctor's Degree Schools in California ranking. This report analyzed 5 schools in California to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for alternative medicine students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Alternative Medicine & Systems Doctor’s Degree Schools in California

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Alternative Medicine & Systems Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Best California Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Alternative Medicine & Systems

Our analysis found Pacific College of Health and Science to be the best value school for alternative medicine and systems students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in California. Located in the large city of San Diego, Pacific College San Diego is a private for-profit college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Pacific College San Diego are $12,668 a year.

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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at California Institute of Integral Studies helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value alternative medicine and systems schools in California. Located in the city of San Francisco, CIIS is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

CIIS graduate students pay an average of $22,188 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Alternative Medicine & Systems Doctor’s Degree Schools in California list. Located in the small city of Santa Monica, Emperor's College is a private for-profit school with a small student population.

Emperor’s College graduate students pay an average of $18,043 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Alternative Medicine & Systems Doctor’s Degree Schools in California list. Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley is a small private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of Berkeley.

Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College - Berkeley graduate students pay an average of $13,862 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Southern California University of Health Sciences helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value alternative medicine and systems schools in California. Located in the suburb of Whittier, SCU is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at SCU are $35,408 a year.

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Best Value Alternative Medicine & Systems Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Alternative Medicine & Systems Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Washington 172
Oregon 187
Nevada 6
Hawaii 14

Alternative Medicine & Systems is one of 29 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 66,964
Medicine 28,629
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions 24,774
Public Health 19,473
Health & Medical Administrative Services 17,335

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 5 schools only.

  • 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 the rest 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).
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