<p>Anyone know of a college in the Northeast (NY/NJ too) that is strong in the health sciences, less than 5000 students. I know some of the SUNY's are good, but enrollment is too big for our tastes. Quinnipiac in Conn. is good, but too pricey at close to 40k per year. D's stats are top notch, but not Ivy. There's got to be a sleeper out there somewhere.... Search the recesses of those large, incredibly helpful, CC craniums. I'll let you know what I come up with.</p>
<p>I wonder if it's hard to be strong in health science and small. (I really have no idea.) But I'm thinking that schools with hospitals etc. might be strongest?</p>
<p>U of Rochester????</p>
<p>University of Scranton?</p>
<p>I know someone who did an accelerated PA program there...</p>
<p>Northeastern University (Boston) - and they're keen on 'top notch' students, so financial aid/merit aid could be a good possibility</p>
<p>Jefferson Medical College, Philadephia</p>
<p>Also, used to be called Pennsylvania College of Pharmacy but is now called, I think , Phila. or PA College of the Sciences, Philadelphia. Not only do they have basic pharmacy but there are many new careers involving the business aspects of Pharmacy industry. We know kids who went there and are very happy .It's a smaller college but right in the Univ. of Penn area of Phila. Also, all kinds of new health technology fields at Jefferson. The Jeff.</p>
<p>Juniata in PA has a really good pre-med program and merit aid.</p>
<p>What is her eventual goal in health sciences, i.e. health information management, healthcare administration, clinical, research, etc.?</p>
<p>Program at Rochester:</p>
<p>Anything in Medical Mecca (aka Boston): Tufts, BC, BU, Simmons, NE</p>
<p>What near-Ivy school in NE is not $40K/yr?</p>
<p>OP was looking specifically for less than 5000 students...</p>
<p>The former Philadelphia College of Pharmaceutical Science is now University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. I think its website is usip.edu. I used to live a couple blocks from it.</p>
<p>Drexel, which now has Hahnemann Medical School, also has a School of Public Health that it has been trying to build up.</p>
<p>I think Johns Hopkins also has Public Health and Nursing programs, as well as Biomedical Engineering and scads of medicine-related science courses.</p>
<p>Tufts has a killer Community Health program; I believe UPenn and Tufts are the only one who offer it in the country, but word has it Tufts' is even stronger and it also fits the less than 5,000 bill you want. Also, if you get into a special five-year program, you can earn your bachelor's in Community Health AND an MPH from Tufts' Friedman School of Nutrition or School of Medicine in five years.</p>
<p>Tufts</p>
<p>Mass College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences</p>
<p>Simmons</p>
<p>probably get merit aid at ithaca</p>
<p>John Hopkins and Tufts.. great schools, but too pricey. Quinnipiac comes in at less than 40k.. I'll check on Ithaca. The Boston schools get plenty of aps might not be the case in Philly. Philly schools might be more giving. Right now D is wondering about majors that might eventually lead to a hospital administrator position. Would she need to double major in business AND health? What is the path these administrators take, undergrad and beyond? Are they MD's? Physicians assistant and physical therapy are lucrative, but lengthy pursuits... six years I guess.</p>
<p>You may want to investigate some Canadian schools, like McGill, Toronto, and Western Ontario, although I think all of them are > 5,000 students. I know McGill has a well-regarded physical therapy program, and that Western Ontario has a comprehensive program that tries to function both as a pre-med, pre-nursing major and as an entree into health care administration. They are considerably cheaper than US private universities, even with the weak dollar -- more in line with in-state costs at state schools -- and I know at least one American kid who actually receives some merit aid at McGill. For an American kid with not-quite-Ivy stats, Toronto and McGill are decent matches.</p>
<p>St Jospeh's college in Maine has programs that seem to fit the bill also - beautiful small campus</p>
<p>Hospital admins's can be nurses who get a Masters in Healthcare Admin - an example - or an undergrad in buisiness/accounting then a Masters - there are quite a few ways to get there it seems.</p>