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Ranked Colleges
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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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2021-2022, 2,011 people earned their degree in public health/community nurse/nursing, making the major the 316th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 85 public health/community nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 55 public health/community nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in public health/community nurse/nursing. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in public health/community nurse/nursing.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Southeast Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
In addition to College Factual’s rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree public health/community nursing students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Bluefield College landed the #1 spot on the list. Bluefield College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Bluefield, Virginia. It awarded 15 bachelors’s public health/community nursing degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full Bluefield College Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Miami landed the #2 spot on the list. U Miami is a fairly large school located in Coral Gables, Florida that handed out 40 bachelors’s public health/community nursing degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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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%.
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- *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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