2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness in the Southwest Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2021-2022, 5,951 people earned their degree in general health & wellness, making the major the 141st most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 1,647 general health & wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 43 general health & wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer 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.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region”.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Texas Health Science Center. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Fort Worth, Texas, this small public school handed out 30 degrees to qualified masters’s health and wellness students in 2021-2022.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read more about General Health & Wellness at University of North Texas Health Science Center
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Dallas, Texas, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 12 degrees to qualified masters’s health and wellness students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Southern Methodist University General Health & Wellness Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region. Arizona State University - Tempe is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 57 masters’s health and wellness degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Health & Wellness at Arizona State University - Tempe
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southwestern College landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified masters’s health and wellness students in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read more about General Health & Wellness at SWC Santa Fe
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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.
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