2025 Best General Health & Wellness Schools in the Plains States Region
9Colleges in the Plains States Region
348Health and Wellness Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in general health & wellness, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #141 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 9 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best General Health & Wellness Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 348 degrees in general health & wellness annually.
Your choice of general health & wellness school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general health & wellness schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Health & Wellness Schools in the Plains States Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for General Health & Wellness in the Plains States Region
The schools below may not offer all types of health and wellness degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Plains States Region Schools in Health and Wellness
Creighton University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in general health & wellness. Creighton is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Omaha. A Best Colleges rank of #128 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Creighton is a great university overall.
There were roughly 42 general health & wellness students who graduated with this degree at Creighton in the most recent data year.
It's hard to beat University of Minnesota - Twin Cities if you wish to pursue a degree in general health & wellness. Located in the large city of Minneapolis, UMN Twin Cities is a public university with a fairly large student population. 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 year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat University of North Dakota if you want to pursue a degree in general health & wellness. Located in the city of Grand Forks, UND is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #335 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UND is a great university overall.
There were about 15 general health & wellness students who graduated with this degree at UND in the most recent year we have data available.
Rockhurst University is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in general health & wellness. Rockhurst is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Kansas City. This university ranks 9th out of 48 colleges for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 65 general health & wellness students who graduated with this degree at Rockhurst in the most recent year we have data available.
Luther is a small private not-for-profit college located in the town of Decorah. This college ranks 9th out of 37 colleges for overall quality in the state of Iowa.
There were roughly 4 general health & wellness students who graduated with this degree at Luther in the most recent data year.
Located in the suburb of Saint Louis, Maryville U is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #319 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Maryville U is a great university overall.
There were approximately 37 general health & wellness students who graduated with this degree at Maryville U in the most recent year we have data available.
UMN Crookston is a small public university located in the town of Crookston. This university ranks 48th out of 52 colleges for overall quality in the state of Minnesota.
There were about 3 general health & wellness students who graduated with this degree at UMN Crookston in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the town of Maryville, Northwest is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 20th out of 48 colleges for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were roughly 43 general health & wellness students who graduated with this degree at Northwest in the most recent data year.
Located in the large suburb of Saint Louis, MBU is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 26th out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 7 general health & wellness students who graduated with this degree at MBU in the most recent data year.
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).
Your choice of general health & wellness school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general health & wellness schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
