Best Healthcare Practitioner programs in New York, ranked by enrollment
All healthcare practitioners and technical workers not listed.
10 schools in New York run programs that feed this job, graduating 91 people a year. The job pays a median of $102,990 in New York across about 1,110 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).
Fields of study in New York that lead to this job
Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.
3 programs in New York that lead to this job
Ranked by graduates per year in New York (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own New York page.
| # | Program | Graduates / yr | Share of pipeline | Schools | Grad earnings (1 yr) | Median debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CIP 51.3201In New York → | 85 | 93.4% | 8 | $99,851 | $21,475 |
| 2 | CIP 51.3302In New York → | 4 | 4.4% | 1 | $27,262 | $18,492 |
| 3 | Herbalism/Herbalistmain feeder CIP 51.3702In New York → | 2 | 2.2% | 1 | — | $29,166 |
Top 10 schools in New York
Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 0 of the 10 schools in this state.
| # | School | Graduates / yr | Top feeder program | Grad earnings (1 yr) | Grad rate | Net price | Acceptance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs | 36 | Bioethics/Medical Ethics | — | 96% | $15,315 | 4% |
| 2 | Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, NY Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs | 21 | Bioethics/Medical Ethics | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Clarkson University Potsdam, NY Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs | 11 | Bioethics/Medical Ethics | — | 75% | $27,281 | 77% |
| 4 | Albany Medical College Albany, NY Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs | 5 | Bioethics/Medical Ethics | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Hofstra University Hempstead, NY Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs | 4 | Bioethics/Medical Ethics | — | 69% | $34,539 | 68% |
| 6 | New York College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Mineola, NY Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs | 4 | Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese Herbology | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | University of Rochester Rochester, NY Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs | 3 | Bioethics/Medical Ethics | — | 85% | $25,874 | 40% |
| 8 | Yeshiva University New York, NY Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs | 3 | Bioethics/Medical Ethics | — | 83% | $39,696 | 56% |
| 9 | New York Medical College Valhalla, NY Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs | 2 | Bioethics/Medical Ethics | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | Pacific College of Health and Science New York, NY Private for-profit · 1 feeder programs | 2 | Herbalism/Herbalist | — | 56% | $46,003 | — |
All 10 schools in New York
Every school in New York with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.
| School | City | Control | Graduates / yr | Feeder programs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia University in the City of New York | New York | Private not-for-profit | 36 | 1 |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Bronx | Private not-for-profit | 21 | 1 |
| Clarkson University | Potsdam | Private not-for-profit | 11 | 1 |
| Albany Medical College | Albany | Private not-for-profit | 5 | 1 |
| Hofstra University | Hempstead | Private not-for-profit | 4 | 1 |
| New York College of Traditional Chinese Medicine | Mineola | Private not-for-profit | 4 | 1 |
| University of Rochester | Rochester | Private not-for-profit | 3 | 1 |
| Yeshiva University | New York | Private not-for-profit | 3 | 1 |
| New York Medical College | Valhalla | Private not-for-profit | 2 | 1 |
| Pacific College of Health and Science | New York | Private for-profit | 2 | 1 |
What healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other earn in New York
What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.
U.S. median $65,790. New York pays above the national figure.
1.00× means the state has its expected share of these jobs.
Metro areas in New York
Job outlook
Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.
Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.
How to get in
The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other page.
How to become a Healthcare Practitioner
Job zone 5 of 5 · SVP 8.0 and above- Typical entry education
- Postsecondary nondegree award
Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).
Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.
Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.
Top skills
The same job in other states
Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.
Related careers in New York
Every major mapped to this job
The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.
All 4 majors mapped to Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other4 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
- 51.0711Medical/Health Management and Clinical Assistant/Specialist
- 51.3201Bioethics/Medical Ethics
- 51.3302Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese Herbology
- 51.3702Herbalism/Herbalist
Common questions
Answers for people weighing healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other programs in New York.
What degree do you need to become a Healthcare Practitioner?+
Postsecondary nondegree award is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Bioethics/Medical Ethics, which awarded 85 degrees in New York in 2024-25, 93.4% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.
Which college majors lead to becoming a Healthcare Practitioner?+
The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 3 programs to this occupation. The largest are Health Professions Education, Alternative and Complementary Medicine and Medical Systems, Energy and Biologically Based Therapies. Together they graduate about 91 people a year in New York.
How much do healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other earn in New York?+
The median is $102,990 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 56.5% above the U.S. median of $65,790. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.
Is demand for healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other growing?+
BLS projects a +3.6% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, about as fast as average, with roughly 2,600 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.
How many schools offer programs for this career in New York?+
10 institutions in New York reported graduates from at least one of the 3 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.
What other job titles do healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other work under?+
Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records Homebirth Midwife, Licensed Midwife (LM), Certified Professional Midwife (CPM), Licensed Certified Professional Midwife among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 29-9099.
About the data on this page
Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).
BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics
May 2025Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.
BLS Employment Projections
2024–34Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.
IPEDS Completions
2024-25 (provisional)Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.
College Scorecard, Field of Study
2020-21 cohortsMedian graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.
Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes
latest availableGraduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.
NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk
CIP 2020 / SOC 2018Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.
O*NET Database 30.3
30.3Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.
Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA
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