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Medicine and Health Schools in Connecticut

Connecticut contains 54 schools that offer medicine and health programs. Wesleyan University, the highest-ranking medicine and health school in CT, has a total student population of 3,148 and is the 46th highest ranked school in America.

Of the 54 medicine and health schools in Connecticut, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Lincoln Technical Institute comes out as the most expensive ($36,090/yr), with Three Rivers Community College as the lowest recorded at only $4,092/yr.

Medicine and Health students from Connecticut schools who go on to become medicine and health professionals, office administrators, massage therapists, trainers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 271,710 people working as medical and health services managers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $90,970. Also, Registered nurses make on average $66,530 per year and there are about 2,583,770 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Connecticut alone, there are 35,790 employed registered nurses earning an average yearly salary of $71,930. Medical and health services managers in this state earn $103,820/yr and there are 4,480 employed.

Also, within the medicine and health schools in Connecticut, the average student population is 1,939 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 14 to 1. Aside from medicine and health, there are 2145 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 3,319 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,907, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.

Connecticut Interesting Facts

The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names. The New Haven District Telephone Company published it in New Haven in February 1878.
The USS Nautilus - the world's first nuclear powered submarine was built in Groton in 1954.
Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
In 1705, copper was discovered in Simsbury. Later, the copper mine became the infamous New-Gate Prison of the Revolutionary War. Doctor Samuel Higley of Simsbury started the first copper coinage in America in 1737.
The Scoville Memorial Library is the United States oldest public library. The library collection began in 1771, when Richard Smith, owner of a local blast furnace, used community contributions to buy 200 books in London. Patrons could borrow and return books on the third Monday of every third month. Fees were collected for damages, the most common being "greasing" by wax dripped from the candles by which the patrons read.

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