Montana contains 21 schools that offer medicine and health programs. Carroll College, the highest-ranking medicine and health school in MT, has a total student population of 1,462 and is the 314th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 21 medicine and health schools in Montana, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Great Falls comes out as the most expensive ($21,657/yr), with Fort Belknap College as the lowest recorded at only $1,717/yr.
Medicine and Health students from Montana 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 Montana alone, there are 8,340 employed registered nurses earning an average yearly salary of $56,380. Medical and health services managers in this state earn $71,960/yr and there are 710 employed.
Also, within the medicine and health schools in Montana, the average student population is 1,791 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 14 to 1. Aside from medicine and health, there are 1015 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,803 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,505, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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