2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Community Health and Preventive Medicine (Income $48-$75k) in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k” 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. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 2 community health and preventive medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality community health and preventive medicine programs that also have a lower cost than 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Community Health and Preventive Medicine (Income $48-$75k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Arizona Western College

Yuma, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$11,831 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona Western College landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Yuma, Arizona, and it awarded 2 associates’s community health and preventive medicine degrees in 2019-2020.

AWC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $11,831 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Community Health and Preventive Medicine students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend AWC.

Read more about Community Health and Preventive Medicine at Arizona Western College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Community Health and Preventive Medicine (Income $48-$75k)

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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