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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 Master’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.
Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing is the 316th most popular major in the country with 2,011 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 28 public health/community nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’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. That schools that top this list have a program in public health/community nurse/nursing in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The public health/community nursing 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 a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Southeast Region”.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree public health/community nursing students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Jacksonville State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Southeast Region list. Jacksonville State University is a medium-sized school located in Jacksonville, Alabama that handed out 28 masters’s public health/community nursing degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Jacksonville State University Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Emory University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Southeast Region list. This fairly large school is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and it awarded 0 masters’s public health/community nursing degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
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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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