2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness in the Rocky Mountains Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Health & Wellness is the 141st most popular major in the country with 5,951 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 540 general health & wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 127 general health & wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,137 and $16,077 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in general health & wellness. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general health & wellness program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region associate degree health and wellness students.

Top 5 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

Northern Wyoming Community College District
Sheridan, Wyoming

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern Wyoming Community College District. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Northern Wyoming Community College District is located in Sheridan, Wyoming and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 64 associates’s health and wellness degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Health & Wellness at Northern Wyoming Community College District

2

Central Wyoming College
Riverton, Wyoming

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central Wyoming College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Central Wyoming College is located in Riverton, Wyoming and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 29 associates’s health and wellness degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Health & Wellness at CWC

3

Carrington College, Boise
Boise, Idaho

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Carrington College, Boise landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Boise, Idaho, this small private for-profit school handed out 20 degrees to qualified associates’s health and wellness students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Carrington College, Boise General Health & Wellness Report

4

Laramie County Community College
Cheyenne, Wyoming

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Laramie County Community College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Cheyenne, Wyoming is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s health and wellness degrees to 13 students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Health & Wellness at LCCC

5

Utah Valley University
Orem, Utah

#14 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Utah Valley University landed the #5 spot on the list. Utah Valley University is a large school located in Orem, Utah that handed out 1 associates’s health and wellness degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Health & Wellness at Utah Valley University

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

Footnotes

• *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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Sandra M. Palumbo.