Public Health is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #104 most popular associate degree program in the country. 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 Public Health Associate Degree Schools in Florida ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 171 associate degrees in public health to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Public Health School for Your Associate Degree
The public health associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Early-Career Salaries
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their associate degree from the school. After all, your associate degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on public health students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other public health students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt public health students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized public health related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for public health students working on their associate degree.
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 Public Health Associate Degree Schools in Florida list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Public Health in Florida
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in public health.
Top Florida Schools for an Associate in Public Health
Keiser University - Ft Lauderdale is one of the best schools in the country for getting an associate degree in public health. Keiser University - Ft Lauderdale is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Fort Lauderdale.
Those public health students who get their associate degree from Keiser University - Ft Lauderdale earn $5,652 more than the standard public health student.
Florida National University - Main Campus is one of the finest schools in the country for getting an associate degree in public health. Florida National University - Main Campus is a small private for-profit university located in the suburb of Hialeah.
Associate recipients from the public health program at Florida National University - Main Campus get $5,843 above the average graduate in this field shortly after graduation.
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).
The public health associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
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