Arkansas Colleges of Health Education

What are the graduation rates for students at Arkansas Colleges of Health Education?

Conventional four- and six-year undergraduate graduation rates are not useful measures of ACHE's professional programs. Those federal measures follow specified cohorts of first-time undergraduates; they should not be read as completion rates for DO, occupational therapy, or physical therapy students.

Applicants comparing programs should instead look for the outcomes published for their intended credential, including cohort completion, licensing-examination performance, and - for medical students - residency placement. Each measure answers a different question: completing a degree is not the same as passing a licensing exam or securing a position after graduation. Check the cohort years and definitions before comparing figures across schools.

What is the earning potential for graduates at Arkansas Colleges of Health Education?

There is no single earnings figure that adequately describes the career prospects of everyone studying at ACHE. Its programs lead toward different occupations, and professional earnings can vary with licensure, residency or other postgraduate training, specialty, location, and hours worked.

Medical graduates, for example, generally enter supervised postgraduate training before independent practice, so an early-career salary should not be confused with the earnings of an established physician. Applicants evaluating a program should distinguish a school-reported employment outcome from a federal earnings statistic, and check whether any figure is a median or mean, which graduates it includes, and how long after completion it was measured.