2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,647 general health & wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 138 general health & wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,470 and $15,074 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in general health & wellness. That schools that top this list have a program in general health & wellness in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The health and wellness 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 for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region”.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region”.

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

1

Carrington College, Phoenix North
Phoenix, Arizona

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Carrington College, Phoenix North. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region. Phoenix, Arizona is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s health and wellness degrees to 130 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Health & Wellness at Carrington College, Phoenix North

2

Tyler Junior College
Tyler, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tyler Junior College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region list. Tyler Junior College is a fairly large school located in Tyler, Texas that handed out 0 associates’s health and wellness degrees in 2021-2022.

Full Tyler Junior College General Health & Wellness Report

3

Angelina College
Lufkin, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Angelina College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region. AC is a small public school situated in Lufkin, Texas. It awarded 4 associates’s health and wellness degrees in 2021-2022.

Read full report on General Health & Wellness at AC

4

Palo Alto College
San Antonio, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Palo Alto College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region list. Palo Alto College is located in San Antonio, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 associates’s health and wellness degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Palo Alto College General Health & Wellness Report

4

South University, Austin
Round Rock, Texas

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, South University, Austin landed the #4 spot on the list. Round Rock, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s health and wellness degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Health & Wellness at South University, Austin

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.