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Medicine and Health Schools in Kentucky

Kentucky contains 61 schools that offer medicine and health programs. Centre College, the highest-ranking medicine and health school in KY, has a total student population of 1,216 and is the 134th highest ranked school in America.

Of the 61 medicine and health schools in Kentucky, only 5 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Daymar College-Paducah Main comes out as the most expensive ($34,824/yr), with Maysville Community and Technical College as the lowest recorded at only $5,255/yr.

Medicine and Health students from Kentucky 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 Kentucky alone, there are 43,250 employed registered nurses earning an average yearly salary of $58,110. Medical and health services managers in this state earn $80,670/yr and there are 4,170 employed.

Also, within the medicine and health schools in Kentucky, the average student population is 2,555 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 16 to 1. Aside from medicine and health, there are 2859 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,477 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,117, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.

Kentucky Interesting Facts

The town of Murray is home to the Boy Scouts of America Scouting Museum located on the campus of Murray State University.
The Kentucky Derby is the oldest continuously held horse race in the country. It is held at Churchill Downs in Louisville on the first Saturday in May.
The Bluegrass Country around Lexington is home to some of the world's finest racehorses.
Kentucky was a popular hunting ground for the Shawnee and Cherokee Indian nations prior to being settled by white settlers.
In 1774 Harrodstown (now Harrodsburg) was established as the first permanent settlement in the Kentucky region. It was named after James Harrod who led a team of area surveyors.

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