About DHSc Degree
This site exists because the Doctor of Health Science is a scattered, badly documented degree, and comparing programs on it is harder than it should be.
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Why This DHSc Degree Guide Exists
The DHSc has a documentation problem that most degrees do not. It has no programmatic accreditor, so there is no official directory to consult. Federal data files it under general health sciences codes shared with PhDs and clinical doctorates, so you cannot count it from the public data either. And because it is a small field, the lists that do exist tend to be assembled from marketing copy.
So the work here is mostly verification. Every institution reporting a doctorate under the relevant federal codes was crawled on its own website, and a program is listed only when the university's own page calls the degree a Doctor of Health Science. That test turns 43 federal rows into 24 actual DHSc programs, and every card on the site links to the page it was read from.
How We Research DHSc Degree Programs
Three rules govern what gets published, and they are the reason some things you might expect to see are missing.
Every number traces to a source that was actually fetched. Program facts come from the school's own page, institutional figures come from IPEDS, and wage figures come from the BLS wage survey. Nothing is estimated to fill a gap. Where a school does not publish a figure, the row simply does not appear, rather than appearing with a placeholder.
No program is described by comparing it to the program next to it. Cards render on several pages with different neighbours on each, so a claim like "cheaper than the one above" would be true on one page and false on another. Percentiles and published figures are used instead.
Contradictions get flagged rather than smoothed over. One program page on this site carries a summary box that contradicts its own prose on credits, tuition and entry requirements. Rather than pick whichever number looked better, the conflicting figures are left unpublished and the conflict is described on that program's page.
Who Writes This DHSc Degree Guide
Taylor Rupe is the founder and editor of dhscdegree.com. He holds degrees in psychology from the University of Washington and computer science from Oregon State University, and works as a software engineer. He built the pipeline behind this site: every institution reporting a health sciences doctorate to IPEDS was crawled on its own website, and a program appears here only when the school's own page calls it a Doctor of Health Science. The wage figures come from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics release. He is not a clinician and does not hold a DHSc, and this site publishes no clinical advice. What it does is make a scattered, badly documented degree comparable, and show its work.
The disclosure in that paragraph is deliberate. This site is built by someone who works in software, not health care, and it publishes no clinical advice and no advice about your career that a person who knows your situation could not give you better. What it does is make public records comparable and show its working, which is a thing an engineer can honestly do.
The Limits of Our DHSc Degree Program Data
A program can be missing from this site because its website defeated the crawler rather than because it does not exist. Some university sites load their program listings with JavaScript that a crawler does not run, and a few sit behind bot protection. Where that happened, the program is absent rather than guessed at, and we would rather have a short accurate list than a long speculative one.
The ranking uses each university's published annual graduate tuition, because that is the only cost figure defined identically for every school on the list. It is an institutional rate rather than the price of the degree, and the methodology page explains why we do not multiply it out into a total. Separately, and this is a fact about the field rather than about this site: no completion rate, time-to-degree distribution or graduate outcome data is published for DHSc programs anywhere, by anyone. If you see those figures quoted for this degree, ask where they came from.
If you run a DHSc program that belongs here, or you have spotted something wrong, write to help@hakia.com.
Where the DHSc Degree Program Data Comes From
- Program facts: each university's own program page, linked from every card.
- IPEDS Completions and Institutional Characteristics for tuition, completion rates, enrolment and degrees conferred.
- BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics for every wage figure.
- The ranking methodology, with all seven weights published.
How This DHSc Degree Guide Makes Money
This site may receive compensation when readers request information from or enrol in programs featured here. Sponsored placements are labelled. Federal program data and wage data are pulled from official records, and every program fact is taken from the school's own page, reported the same way regardless of partnership status.