Idaho contains fourteen schools that offer medicine and health programs. University of Idaho, the highest-ranking medicine and health school in ID, has a total student population of 11,957 and is the 243rd highest ranked school in America.
Of the 14 medicine and health schools in Idaho, only 4 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Phoenix-Idaho Campus comes out as the most expensive ($24,120/yr), with College of Southern Idaho as the lowest recorded at only $5,559/yr.
Medicine and Health students from Idaho 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 Idaho alone, there are 10,540 employed registered nurses earning an average yearly salary of $61,320. Medical and health services managers in this state earn $73,470/yr and there are 1,440 employed.
Also, within the medicine and health schools in Idaho, the average student population is 3,285 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 16 to 1. Aside from medicine and health, there are 1173 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,807 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,022, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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