All disciplines eligible will be shown. 16.5 17.1 Clin. Psychology 8.2 8.9 7.9 Health Admist. In studying these statistics, chiropractic is the only profession to show a gradual increase the past three years. While as the other professions appear to show gradual decreases, such as medicine and osteopathy, podiatry was the only other profession to show an increase from FY 94 to FY 95.
Public health has the highest default rate for all disciplines.
But public health has only 876 students funded, whereas over 20,000 chiropractors have received funding. Chiropractic has the third highest number of students funded. At the end of FY 93 the total default rate for all disciplines was 5.1 percent. FY 94 and FY 95 have incremental decreases from 4.7 percent to 4.6 percent.2,4 An interesting statistic that was in the FY 93 and FY 94 reports, but omitted in the FY 95 report, was the status of loan repayment. The reason for the omission is unknown.