Bastyr University

Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington, is an alternative medicine university. Bastyr University is not accredited as a medical school but as a special program that is overseen by a naturopathic council, which is not required to be scientific. Bastyr's naturopathic program has been accused by critics of misrepresenting its medical rigor and of spreading misinformation about its ability to train primary care clinicians. Undergraduate and graduate academics include degrees in: * Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine * Naturopathic Medicine * Nutrition * Midwifery * Psychology Bastyr offers bachelor's completion, master's, combined undergraduate/masters, doctoral, and certificate programs. Average first-year cost (tuition, fees, and books) not including room and board for undergraduate programs is $26,523, and for the doctorate in naturopathic medicine is $39,589. Bastyr presents itself as the ''Harvard of naturopathic medicine.'' The Princeton Review reports that the naturopathic medicine program at Bastyr had an acceptance rate of 68%.

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