2023 Most Focused Colleges for Infectious Disease and Global Health
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Infectious Disease and Global Health Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Infectious Disease and Global Health is the 1312th most popular major in the country with 72 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Infectious Disease and Global Health Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in infectious disease and global health. That schools that top this list have a program in infectious disease and global health in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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The infectious disease and global health school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools Highly Focused on Infectious Disease and Global Health Major”.
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Schools Highly Focused on Infectious Disease and Global Health Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for infectious disease and global health students.
Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Infectious Disease and Global Health
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Infectious Disease and Global Health Major. Ann Arbor, Michigan is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s infectious disease and global health degrees to 20 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Infectious Disease and Global Health at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Juniata College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Infectious Disease and Global Health Major list. Juniata is a small school located in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania that handed out 0 ’s infectious disease and global health degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Infectious Disease and Global Health at Juniata
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Notes and References
References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
