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2025 Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools in California

3 Colleges in California
229 Community Health and Preventive Medicine Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in community health and preventive medicine, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #281 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for community health and preventive medicine students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 229 degrees in community health and preventive medicine to qualified students.

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Choosing a Great Community Health and Preventive Medicine School

Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools in California The community health and preventive medicine program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Community Health and Preventive Medicine rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for community health and preventive medicine schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.

In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.

Community Health and Preventive Medicine Rankings by Degree Level

Associate Degrees in Community Health and Preventive Medicine
Bachelor's Degrees in Community Health and Preventive Medicine
Master's Degrees in Community Health and Preventive Medicine
Doctor's Degrees in Community Health and Preventive Medicine

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 Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools in California list to help you make the college decision. More interested in schools in a specific area of the country? Filter this list by region or state.

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Best Schools for Community Health and Preventive Medicine in California

The schools below may not offer all types of community health and preventive medicine degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.

Top California Schools in Community Health and Preventive Medicine

1
Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type
4th Most Popular In CA

University of California - Los Angeles is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in community health and preventive medicine. UCLA is a very large public university located in the city of Los Angeles. A Best Colleges rank of #28 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UCLA is a great university overall.

There were roughly 8 community health and preventive medicine students who graduated with this degree at UCLA in the most recent data year.

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Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type
3rd Most Popular In CA
33.3% Growth in Graduates

University of California - San Diego is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in community health and preventive medicine. Located in the city of La Jolla, UCSD is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 8th out of 161 schools for overall quality in the state of California.

There were about 24 community health and preventive medicine students who graduated with this degree at UCSD in the most recent year we have data available.

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Bachelors Degree Type
BS in Community Health Education Program Name

Focus on improving the health of individuals based on their lifestyle needs with this specialized online bachelor's from Southern New Hampshire University.

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National University
San Diego, CA
Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type
1st Most Popular In CA
59 Community Health and Preventive Medicine Degrees Awarded

National University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in community health and preventive medicine. National University is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of San Diego. This university ranks 37th out of 161 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.

There were approximately 59 community health and preventive medicine students who graduated with this degree at National University in the most recent data year.

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Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Colleges Degrees Awarded
Washington 831 7
Oregon 587 97

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Community Health and Preventive Medicine is one of 12 different types of Public Health programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Community Health and Preventive Medicine

Related Major Annual Graduates
General Public Health 3,717
Other Public Health 745
International Public Health/International Health 319
Health Services Administration 192
Behavioral Aspects of Health 97
Environmental Health 85
Public Health Education and Promotion 67
Health/Medical Physics 22
Maternal and Child Health 1

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