2025 Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools in California
3Colleges in California
229Community 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.
Choosing a Great Community Health and Preventive Medicine School
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
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.
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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
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.
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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59Community 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.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).