New York College of Health Professions

Private · NY

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School data & stats

TypePrivate

LocationNY · Northeast

SettingSuburban

Undergrads58

Student:faculty6:1

Outcomes

4-yr grad rate—

6-yr grad rate50%

Drop-out rate50%

Study abroad—

Cost

In-state tuition$16k

Out-of-state tuition$16k

Application fee—

Community

Racial diversity75.9%

Gender diversity63.8%

International0%

Identity—

Overview

New York College of Health Professions, based on Long Island, is a small career-focused institution specializing in holistic and complementary health fields - massage therapy, acupuncture, and East Asian medicine chief among them. Rather than a broad liberal-arts campus, it functions as a specialty training school, built around programs that lead directly to licensure and clinical practice in those fields.

Academics

Clinical training runs through the college's own community clinics, where students under supervision treat real patients as part of coursework - a structure common to hands-on health-licensure programs and central to how the school prepares graduates for state licensing exams in massage therapy and acupuncture. The academic calendar and course sequencing are built around those clinical-hour requirements rather than a conventional semester system of electives and majors.

Worth knowing

This is a licensure-track school first: students should expect a commuter, practice-oriented environment rather than a traditional campus, with progress paced by state-mandated clinical-hour requirements in massage therapy and acupuncture rather than by a standard four-year timeline.

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Admissions

Acceptance rate—

Enrolled mid-50%—

Test policynot reported

Rec letters0

Deadlines (2026–27 cycle)

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