2025 Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools in Illinois
3Colleges in Illinois
242Community 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.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools in Illinois ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 242 degrees in community health and preventive medicine annually.
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
The community health and preventive medicine 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 the Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools in Illinois.
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Best Schools for Community Health and Preventive Medicine in Illinois
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 Illinois Schools in Community Health and Preventive Medicine
156Community Health and Preventive Medicine Degrees Awarded
Every student pursuing a degree in community health and preventive medicine needs to take a look at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. UIUC is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Champaign. A Best Colleges rank of #41 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UIUC is a great university overall.
There were approximately 156 community health and preventive medicine students who graduated with this degree at UIUC in the most recent year we have data available.
Eastern Illinois University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in community health and preventive medicine. Located in the remote town of Charleston, EIU is a public university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 52nd out of 85 schools for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were approximately 15 community health and preventive medicine students who graduated with this degree at EIU in the most recent year we have data available.
Focus on improving the health of individuals based on their lifestyle needs with this specialized online bachelor's from Southern New Hampshire University.
44Community Health and Preventive Medicine Degrees Awarded
Any student who is interested in community health and preventive medicine has to look into Governors State University. Located in the large suburb of University Park, GSU is a public university with a small student population. This university ranks 80th out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were about 44 community health and preventive medicine students who graduated with this degree at GSU in the most recent year we have data available.
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).