Delaware contains ten schools that offer medicine and health programs. Delaware State University, the highest-ranking medicine and health school in DE, has a total student population of 3,609 and is the 639th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 10 medicine and health schools in Delaware, none have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Widener University-Delaware Campus comes out as the most expensive ($19,997/yr), with Delaware Technical and Community College-Stanton-Wilmington as the lowest recorded at only $4,849/yr.
Medicine and Health students from Delaware 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 Delaware alone, there are 10,220 employed registered nurses earning an average yearly salary of $70,770. Medical and health services managers in this state earn $89,410/yr and there are 1,020 employed.
Also, within the medicine and health schools in Delaware, the average student population is 2,228 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 16 to 1. Aside from medicine and health, there are 540 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,476 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $3,732, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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