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2023 Best Value Health Professions Schools in Delaware

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$13,390 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$45,365 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Health Professions School for You

Health Professions is one of the most popular subjects to study in Delaware. With 498 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 3rd out of all the majors we track in the state.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Health Professions Schools in Delaware to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in Delaware to see which ones offered the best value programs for health professions students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Health Professions Schools in Delaware

Check out the health professions programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Delaware Schools for Affordable Quality in Health Professions

#1

Wilmington University

New Castle, DE
$11,760 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Wilmington University to be the best value school for health professions students who want to pursue a degree in Delaware. Wilmington University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of New Castle.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Wilmington University are $11,760 per year.

Wilmington University did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Health Professions Schools in Delaware list.

Read full report on Health Professions at Wilmington University

$15,020 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Delaware is a great value for health professions students. Located in the suburb of Newark, UD is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UD are $15,020 a year.

UD also took the #1 spot in our Best Health Professions Schools in Delaware rankings.

Full Health Professions at University of Delaware Report

Best Value Health Professions Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Health Professions Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 17,960
Pennsylvania 14,303
Maryland 4,839
New Jersey 3,330
District of Columbia 2,717

Health Professions Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 66,964
Medicine 28,629
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions 24,774
Public Health 19,473
Health & Medical Administrative Services 17,335
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences 16,952
Mental & Social Health Services 16,815
Allied Health Professions 12,950
Communication Sciences 10,547
Dentistry 6,770
Bioethics/Medical Ethics 4,684
Chiropractic 2,658
Alternative Medicine & Systems 2,582
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services 2,481
Optometry 1,822
Advanced Dentistry & Oral Sciences 1,762
Medical Illustration & Informatics 1,747
Health Sciences & Services 1,746
Other Health Professions 1,261
Health/Medical Prep Programs 1,122
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science 954
Medical Science 909
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 462
Dental Support Services 122
Alternative Medical Support Services 80
Movement & Mind-Body Therapies 55
Energy & Biologically Based Therapies 37
Ophthalmic & Optometric Support Services 11
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 4

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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