{"id":149,"date":"2023-10-25T14:35:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T19:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/career-paths\/health-care\/health-sciences\/?p=149"},"modified":"2023-10-25T14:35:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T19:35:04","slug":"health-science-program-ranked-2nd-nationally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/career-paths\/health-care\/health-sciences\/2023\/10\/25\/health-science-program-ranked-2nd-nationally\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Science Program Ranked 2nd Nationally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Health Science Broad Field program at Northwest Technical College\u2014Bemidji\u2019s technical college\u2014has been ranked as the nation\u2019s second-best online associate in health science program by the website Intelligent.com.<\/p>\n<p>NTC placed 2nd out of 13 schools ranked on the website\u2019s list, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligent.com\/best-online-associates-degree-in-health-science\/#northwest_technical_college\">Best Online Associate in Health Science Degree Programs of 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NTC\u2019s 60-credit associate\u2019s degree in health sciences broad field prepares students for a wide variety of careers in a program that can be completed on campus or online. The program prepares graduates for immediate employment or for continuing education in bachelor\u2019s degree programs.<\/p>\n<p>Intelligent.com uses information from a variety of sources, including aggregate data gathered from other ranking sites such as U.S. News &amp; World Report, in compiling its rankings. It also uses publicly available information from resources such as the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s College Scorecard, the National Center of Education Statistics\u2019 College Navigator, College Board, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The site\u2019s rankings focus exclusively on accredited non-profit institutions. In addition to assigning a score based on a comparison of aggregate data from other ranking sites, Intelligent.com also assigns points for academic quality, graduation rate, cost and return-on-investment and the availability of student resources at the school.<\/p>\n<p>The website says, \u201cour top picks are highly-regarded, affordable and offer the tools and resources students need to successfully graduate and excel in their fields.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Northwest Technical College\u2019s nursing programs are fully accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN). Bemidji\u2019s technical college received initial accreditation for its associate and practical nursing programs in 2019. Initial accreditation indicates a determination by the ACEN Board of Commissioners that NTC\u2019s programs are in compliance with all relevant accreditation standards.<\/p>\n<h2>Learn More<\/h2>\n<h3>Intelligent.com<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligent.com\">Intelligent.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligent.com\/best-online-associates-degree-in-health-science\/#northwest_technical_college\">Best Online Associate in Health Science Degree Programs of 2024<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NTC&#8217;s Health Science Broad Field program has been ranked as the nation\u2019s second-best online associate in health science program by the website Intelligent.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/career-paths\/health-care\/health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/career-paths\/health-care\/health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/career-paths\/health-care\/health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/career-paths\/health-care\/health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/career-paths\/health-care\/health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/career-paths\/health-care\/health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/career-paths\/health-care\/health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/career-paths\/health-care\/health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/career-paths\/health-care\/health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/career-paths\/health-care\/health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/career-paths\/health-care\/health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}