2022 Best Value Colleges for Community Health and Preventive Medicine (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Community Health and Preventive Medicine is the 270th most popular major in the country with 2,318 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 42 community health and preventive medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in community health and preventive medicine. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent community health and preventive medicine programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the community health and preventive medicine program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Value Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region community health and preventive medicine students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Community Health and Preventive Medicine (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Arizona Western College

Yuma, Arizona

#3 in overall quality

$9,734 Average Net Price

$34,900 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona Western College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k. AWC is a medium-sized school located in Yuma, Arizona that handed out 5 ’s community health and preventive medicine degrees in 2019-2020.

AWC also took the #3 spot in our “Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Arizona Western College is $9,734 for Southwest Region Community Health and Preventive Medicine students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read full report on Community Health and Preventive Medicine at Arizona Western College

#2

University of the Incarnate Word

San Antonio, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$21,597 Average Net Price

$49,167 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of the Incarnate Word. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k. San Antonio, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s community health and preventive medicine degrees to 15 students in 2019-2020.

UIW also took the #2 spot in our “Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $21,597 for southwest region community health and preventive medicine students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend University of the Incarnate Word.

Read full report on Community Health and Preventive Medicine at UIW

• Best Value Colleges for Community Health and Preventive Medicine (Income $0-$30k)

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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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