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Medicine and Health Schools in Missouri

Missouri contains 102 schools that offer medicine and health programs. Webster University, the highest-ranking medicine and health school in MO, has a total student population of 19,372 and is the 177th highest ranked school in America.

Of the 102 medicine and health schools in Missouri, only 10 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Allied College South comes out as the most expensive ($44,512/yr), with Park University as the lowest recorded at only $8,192/yr.

Medicine and Health students from Missouri 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 Missouri alone, there are 62,130 employed registered nurses earning an average yearly salary of $57,460. Medical and health services managers in this state earn $74,400/yr and there are 4,430 employed.

Also, within the medicine and health schools in Missouri, the average student population is 2,183 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 16 to 1. Aside from medicine and health, there are 4755 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,482 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,695, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.

Missouri Interesting Facts

Missouri is known as the "Show Me State".
The 'Show Me State' expression may have began in 1899 when Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver stated, "I'm from Missouri and you've got to show me."
The first successful parachute jump to be made from a moving airplane was made by Captain Berry at St. Louis, in 1912.
The most destructive tornado on record occurred in Annapolis. In 3 hours, it tore through the town on March 18, 1925 leaving a 980-foot wide trail of demolished buildings, uprooted trees, and overturned cars. It left 823 people dead and almost 3,000 injured.
At the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, Richard Blechyden, served tea with ice and invented iced tea.

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