 All right, another highly requested video. I'm extremely excited to present the health degree tier list. What is so damn fascinating about these tier lists? Seriously. It's like the most random subjects, like the Tetris tier list will pop up on my feed and I will watch them. I think a lot of you can relate to this. It pretty much doesn't matter what subject it is. I just automatically click on it. I'll take your entire stock. And as always, don't forget to smash like if you feel the same way because it's good karma. Now, most of the time, these types of videos are a total waste of time, but today is your lucky day. That's right, because today we are gonna go over the health degree tier list and I'm gonna tell you the best and the worst health degrees. And I am someone who is a healthcare professional myself and probably over half my friends are too. So these rankings are gonna be perfectly accurate. Just kidding, this is obviously just my opinion. So if you disagree with me, instead of getting triggered and leaving comments like this, go ahead, scroll below, let me know your opinion. And if you make a good point, then we all learn from it and we all win. All right, so let's jump right into it. First one on the list is going to be dental hygienist. Now, this one requires about two to three years of schooling and it has a really great salary for that short amount of time. The median pay is around 75,000 a year, which is excellent. There are over 219,000 jobs right now and it's growing at about 11% per year, which is much higher than average. Now, one of the great things about a lot of these health degrees is it's very obvious what the career that you're gonna go into is once you graduate with a degree. You know, nurse graduates end up becoming nurses. You know, nurses gonna nurse. Dental hygiene degrees end up becoming dental hygienists. It's a very clear path to what career you're gonna go into. You don't have to wait for something to fall into your lap. And this is a very solid and stable job that you can get with only a few years of schooling. And one of my old roommates had a girlfriend that was a dental hygienist and she was able to work part-time and take vacations whenever she wanted. It offered a really good lifestyle. Now, she did tell me that dental hygienists have a huge advantage if they're young and they're extroverted and outgoing. So take that for what it's worth. And most of my audience on this channel is male, but shout out to my female fans as well. Now, research has shown that women do tend to gravitate towards health degrees as something like 80% of the health degree graduates are females. But if you're a guy, that means that you pretty much have an advantage if you go for a lot of these careers because there's just not that many of us. I am aware of the effect I have on women. Just kidding, but overall, this is a great one. I'm gonna have to put dental hygienist in A tier. Next one on the list is going to be dentist and this is a very popular one. I think everyone knows what dentists do. But in my opinion, it's a little bit overrated. Now, this is an eight year doctoral level degree and it requires you to generally go very deep into debt before you can start making money. Now, there are 155,000 jobs available and it's growing at about 7% which is faster than average but that's actually pretty low compared to a lot of the other health degrees. Now, don't get me wrong, this one is still pretty good if you want to become a dentist, that's your life purpose. Don't let this video dissuade you. But the average debt that a dentist takes out is 285,000 and that's actually higher than a medical doctor. And you might think, oh, that's not a big deal because you're making so much money, probably over 150,000 a year and you can just pay it off in two years, right? Well, after taxes and other expenses, it'll usually take more like five to 10 years of frugal spending and aggressively paying off your loans before you'll get to a net worth of zero. And many dentists don't actually get to a net worth of zero until they're late 30s, sometimes even their early 40s. And this one can be great if you open up your own practice but overall, I'm gonna go ahead and give this one a B tier status. Next on the list is going to be diagnostic medical sonographer and this is another one that takes around two years to get into. And in layman's terms, you're gonna help people see if they have a real baby or if it's just another quarantine food baby. Now this one pays really well at about 67,000 a year and it has a 14% growth rate. Now, not a lot of people know about this one but it also has really good job satisfaction just like many of the medical degrees do. Now as a rule, medical degrees generally are pretty stable. Even in a recession, such as the 2008 recession where a lot of different careers are losing their jobs, medical careers tend to be pretty stable. Now this one does pay less than dental hygienists but there's also less licensing requirements so to me it kind of averages out and it's really hard to compare two-year degrees to like an eight-year doctoral level degree. It's almost like comparing apples to oranges and I admit I'm kind of biased towards degrees and careers that only take two to four years to get into versus ones that might take eight plus years but overall, this one is going to go into a tier status. Next on the list is going to be dietetic slash nutritionist and I think this one is pretty self-explanatory. It's basically all about eating healthy which I have not been doing during quarantine and this one is probably going to come as a surprise because it's going to rank relatively low on the list. Now not to say that this is a bad career but when you're comparing it to other health degrees it's not that great and I think objectively most of the health careers are either S tier, A tier or some of the worst ones are B tier but this one requires you to go to school for four years and then it oftentimes requires an internship as well before you can start working. Now for all that hard work they get paid around 60,000 a year and it's got a pretty good growth rate of 11%. And those are pretty good stats overall but not when you compare them to other health careers. So overall, this one is going to go into F tier when you compare it to other health degrees but I'd say it's one of the higher ones in F tier if that makes any difference. Speaking of F tier, here's another one that goes there and that is health and wellness. Now this one is more of a degree that talks about the whole picture so it's not just eating right it's also working out and fitness and I'm not saying that this one isn't important especially here in the US, we kind of need this but unfortunately the stats aren't that good for this one so for that reason it goes in F tier. All right, so next on the list is going to be medical doctor and I already made an entire video about this one it's a little bit overrated and I'm not gonna get too much into it but basically most of the other healthcare degrees have pretty good quality of life there's a good work-life balance there and most of the medical specialties just to be pretty blunt about it don't have that work-life balance. Medical school and residency are also extremely difficult and just the job as a whole is something that not everyone can do and I have the utmost respect for doctors I think they deserve all the praise that they get but the truth is most people just aren't made to work 60 to 80 hours a week for the rest of their life making life and death decisions all day long so to me this one is a little bit overrated with all the TV shows out there and everything I think society kind of glorifies it but if you're the type of person that has the personality to become a doctor then you should definitely go for it overall I think this one goes in B tier but I would say it's pretty high B tier I'd say it's higher than dentist all right so next on the list is going to be nurse and this might be one of the most common professions in the world and nurses are amazing they're the backbone of the healthcare system in my opinion now it generally takes four years sometimes a little bit less to become a registered nurse you make around 71,000 a year and on top of that there's an insane three million jobs available right now in the US and it has a growth rate of 12% which is incredible for that many jobs so for that reason nursing is gonna go into A tier next on the list is very closely related to nursing which is nurse practitioner this is one of my favorite professions it's about a six year degree and they make around 113,000 a year which is a great salary there's also 240,000 jobs out there and it's growing at an insane 26% which is way faster than average now these stats are great but I think the best thing about nurse practitioner is the fact that it's so flexible you can do a lot of the same things that doctors do such as prescribing and diagnosing but you don't have to deal with all the baggage that doctors have to deal with you're also not stuck in one career if you decided to switch later on it's much easier to switch from say surgery to psychiatry for instance than if you were a medical doctor I could go on here but I think you guys get the point this one is clearly an S tier degree next on the list is going to be occupational therapy assistant now this one usually takes around two years or less and you actually get a pretty nice salary of around $57,000 a year and then on top of that there's 51,000 jobs available out there and it's growing at an insane 31% now for a lot of other degrees out there this one would be maybe S tier or A tier but when we're talking about health degrees they're so good that this one is only in B tier when you compare them to the other degrees next one on the list is going to be occupational therapy and this is another good one that takes around six years to get into and just like all the other healthcare degrees it has pretty good stats but you only get paid around 84,000 a year and so for that reason I'm gonna go ahead and put this one in B tier next on the list is going to be optometrist and this one is a doctoral level degree so it could take up to eight years but you make $111,000 a year and it's growing at 10% which is still faster than average the stats on this one aren't quite as good as some of the other healthcare degrees but it's still pretty solid overall I'm gonna go ahead and put this one in B tier next on the list is going to be physician assistant and this is a six year master level degree and you make a very nice 108,000 a year now on top of that this one is growing at 31% and there's 118,000 jobs available right now this is actually one of the fastest growing careers in all of the United States now this one is actually pretty similar to nurse practitioner and it has very similar stats overall but one advantage to PA is it's actually even easier for you to change specialties than as a nurse practitioner and I have a friend who started out working in family medicine then she switched to ER then she switched to dermatology and that's the one that she ended up liking so she's pretty much stayed there for a while and as a medical doctor I don't think there's any way that you'd be able to do that this one is very, very good I'm gonna say S tier for sure next we're gonna talk about physical therapy and this is a doctoral level degree that pays pretty well at nearly $88,000 a year on top of that there are 247,000 jobs and it's expected to grow at 22% now this one doesn't quite get S tier because the pay is a little bit lower than some of the other six year degrees but it's still really good I'm gonna go ahead and put it in A tier all right next on the list this is the one you've all been waiting for I am a pharmacist I got a PharmD so I can definitely speak on this one first of all this is a doctoral level degree but a lot of people that I know including myself actually got the degree in six years instead of eight I even know one girl who was able to do it in four years now this one pays extremely well at about 126,000 a year and there are 314,000 jobs available all of that sounds really great right wait a minute is there something wrong with my glasses is that a 0% growth rate? they must have forgotten the one before the zero right? unfortunately, nope pharmacy is pretty unique among the health professions because it doesn't have a good growth rate now this is for many reasons that I won't get into in this video if you want me to I'll make a video about it but I personally didn't have any issues getting a job after pharmacy school and not that many people from the school that I went to had that many issues and in my opinion that's because even if a healthcare profession is technically saturated it's still considered to be essential so even if we're going through a recession or just hard economic times it's one of those that is not gonna be that affected overall if pharmacy is your passion like it was for me this is still a pretty good one to go into but I would put this in low B tier status next on the list is going to be physical therapy assistant now this one is about a two year degree or so and basically what they do is they help physical therapists now they get paid 48,000 a year and there's a 26% growth rate and that's good but honestly the pay is a little bit low overall this one goes into C tier next on the list is going to be radiation therapists and they basically treat cancer patients and other types of diseases by administering radiation therapy now obviously this is a pretty difficult job I don't know if I could do it myself but this is a two year degree and it honestly has some of the best statistics on the entire list the pay is amazing for a two year degree at 82,000 a year and it has a 9% growth rate with 18,000 jobs available the stats on this one are incredible and I almost put it in S tier but I think I'm a little bit biased towards it just because I don't know if I could do this one myself so I decided to put this one in A tier it's a tough job and I have a ton of respect for people who can do it and if you're one of those people this is probably more like S tier next on the list is going to be a respiratory therapist and this is a two year degree very similar to some of the other ones mentioned but overall the stats are just a little bit worse than some of the other two year degrees so for that reason this one is going to be in C tier next on the list is going to be radiologic and MRI technologists and this is another two year degree that pays over 60,000 a year and it has really good stats again it's not quite on the same level as some of the other two year degrees but it's still a really solid option so for that reason it's going into C tier next on the list is going to be speech and language pathology and this is a six year masters level degree now this one actually is growing at 27% which is one of the best on the list and there's 153,000 jobs available right now the downside to this one is you only get paid 77,000 a year and it also requires an internship or a residency so this is really good overall but when you compare it to all the other healthcare degrees it's a little bit less in terms of the stats so I'm going to go ahead and put this one in D tier next on the list is going to be dental assistant and this is one that doesn't take very long to get into but it also doesn't pay very well at all I'm not going to go over the stats but they're just not that great compared to the other healthcare degrees this one goes in F tier and then last it's going to be optician and this is another one where it's not bad overall but the stats just don't really pan out when you compare it to the other healthcare degrees so this one goes in D tier all right so that's the list make sure to check out my videos right here I made them just for you go ahead, smash the like button hit the subscribe button, ring the notification bell and then comment down below any thoughts or comments that you have on the video thank you so much for watching and bye for now