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2023 Best Value Health Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in Washington

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

11 Colleges
$18,246 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$81,655 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Health Professions Doctor's Degree School for You

Health Professions is one of the most popular subjects to study in Washington. With 10,021 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 3rd out of all the majors we track in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Health Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in Washington ranking. This report analyzed 11 schools in Washington to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for health professions 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. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Health Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Washington

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Health Professions Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Top 10 Best Health Professions Doctor's Degree Schools

#1

Gonzaga University

Spokane, WA

Our 2023 rankings named Gonzaga University the best value school in Washington for health professions students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the medium-sized city of Spokane, Gonzaga is a private not-for-profit school with a medium-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Gonzaga are $14,878 a year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Washington University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Health Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Washington list. Located in the fringe town of Cheney, EWU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at EWU are $13,379 a year.

EWU also took the #3 spot in our Best Health Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Washington rankings.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Washington University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Health Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Washington list. WWU is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Bellingham.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at WWU are $12,490 a year.

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#4

Seattle University

Seattle, WA

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Seattle University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Health Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Washington list. Located in the large city of Seattle, Seattle U is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population.

Seattle U graduate students pay an average of $14,310 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 Washington State University. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Health Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Washington list. Wazzu is a fairly large public school located in the distant town of Pullman.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Wazzu are $13,740 per year.

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University of Washington - Seattle Campus came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Health Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Washington ranking. Located in the city of Seattle, UW Seattle is a public college with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UW Seattle are $17,754 per year.

UW Seattle also made our Best Health Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Washington list, coming in at #5.

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Seattle Pacific University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for health professions students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #7 on the list. SPU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Seattle.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at SPU are $24,273 per year.

SPU also made our Best Health Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Washington list, coming in at #4.

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University of Puget Sound landed the #8 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value doctor’s degree health professions programs. Puget Sound is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Tacoma.

Puget Sound graduate students pay an average of $36,047 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Puget Sound is ranked #1 for overall quality for health professions in Washington.

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Pacific Lutheran University came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Health Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Washington ranking. Located in the large suburb of Tacoma, PLU is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

PLU graduate students pay an average of $29,684 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Antioch University - Seattle did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for health professions students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #10 on the list. Antioch University - Seattle is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Seattle.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Antioch University - Seattle are $18,459 a year.

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Best Value Health Professions Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Health Professions Colleges in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
California 54,872
Oregon 5,865
Hawaii 1,126
Nevada 4,207
Alaska 578

Health Professions Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274
Allied Health Professions 82,308
Public Health 40,596
Health Sciences & Services 35,945
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions 29,833
Mental & Social Health Services 29,053
Medicine 28,629
Dental Support Services 26,399
Communication Sciences 22,298
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences 20,393
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science 18,901
Somatic Bodywork & Therapeutic Services 10,751
Health/Medical Prep Programs 9,210
Other Health Professions 7,984
Dentistry 6,770
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services 6,158
Bioethics/Medical Ethics 5,115
Alternative Medicine & Systems 3,564
Chiropractic 2,658
Health Aids/Attendants/Orderlies 2,374
Medical Illustration & Informatics 2,089
Optometry 1,822
Advanced Dentistry & Oral Sciences 1,775
Ophthalmic & Optometric Support Services 960
Medical Science 909
Movement & Mind-Body Therapies 294
Alternative Medical Support Services 227
Energy & Biologically Based Therapies 68

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 11 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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