New York contains 228 schools that offer medicine and health programs. Columbia University in the City of New York, the highest-ranking medicine and health school in NY, has a total student population of 24,230 and is the 4th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 228 medicine and health schools in New York, only 7 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, The New School comes out as the most expensive ($39,004/yr), with Farmingdale State College as the lowest recorded at only $7,028/yr.
Medicine and Health students from New York 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 New York alone, there are 165,730 employed registered nurses earning an average yearly salary of $72,790. Medical and health services managers in this state earn $105,670/yr and there are 26,680 employed.
Also, within the medicine and health schools in New York, the average student population is 2,856 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 16 to 1. Aside from medicine and health, there are 10195 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 3,318 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,933, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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