General Health & Wellness is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #141 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 73 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for general health & wellness students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 5,951 degrees in general health & wellness annually.
The health and wellness program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Health & Wellness rankings. We derive our Best Overall General Health & Wellness School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
General Health & Wellness Rankings by Degree Level
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 the Best General Health & Wellness Schools.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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Best Schools for General Health & Wellness in the United States
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the health and wellness degrees they offer, see the list below. Only those schools that rank in the top 20% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
Every student who is interested in general health & wellness has to look into Northwestern University. Located in the city of Evanston, Northwestern is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #5 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Northwestern is a great university overall.
There were roughly 40 general health & wellness students who graduated with this degree at Northwestern in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat Creighton University if you want to pursue a degree in general health & wellness. Located in the city of Omaha, Creighton is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #128 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Creighton is a great university overall.
There were approximately 42 general health & wellness students who graduated with this degree at Creighton in the most recent data year.
University of Rhode Island is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in general health & wellness. URI is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Kingston. A Best Colleges rank of #241 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means URI is a great university overall.
There were about 126 general health & wellness students who graduated with this degree at URI in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in general health & wellness has to check out University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. UMN Twin Cities is a fairly large public university located in the city of Minneapolis. A Best Colleges rank of #45 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UMN Twin Cities is a great university overall.
There were approximately 31 general health & wellness students who graduated with this degree at UMN Twin Cities in the most recent data year.
Located in the town of Slippery Rock, SRU is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 37th out of 103 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were about 122 general health & wellness students who graduated with this degree at SRU in the most recent data year.
Texas A&M College Station is a fairly large public university located in the city of College Station. A Best Colleges rank of #42 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Texas A&M College Station is a great university overall.
There were about 344 general health & wellness students who graduated with this degree at Texas A&M College Station in the most recent data year.
Purdue University Global is a very large public university located in the small city of West Lafayette. A Best Colleges rank of #284 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Purdue University Global is a great university overall.
There were roughly 893 general health & wellness students who graduated with this degree at Purdue University Global in the most recent data year.
Located in the city of Tempe, ASU - Tempe is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #108 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means ASU - Tempe is a great university overall.
There were about 57 general health & wellness students who graduated with this degree at ASU - Tempe in the most recent year we have data available.
Towson is a fairly large public university located in the city of Towson. A Best Colleges rank of #188 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Towson is a great university overall.
There were about 139 general health & wellness students who graduated with this degree at Towson in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the large city of New Orleans, Tulane is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #95 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Tulane is a great university overall.
There were about 47 general health & wellness students who graduated with this degree at Tulane in the most recent data year.
Located in the city of New Haven, SCSU is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 11th out of 18 colleges for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were about 78 general health & wellness students who graduated with this degree at SCSU in the most recent data year.
These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best General Health & Wellness Schools award.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
The health and wellness program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Health & Wellness rankings. We derive our Best Overall General Health & Wellness School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
