Maternal and Child Health degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #1032 out of the 1506 majors we look at each year. This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for maternal and child health students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 179 degrees in maternal and child health annually.
The maternal and child health program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Maternal and Child Health rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for maternal and child health schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Maternal and Child Health Rankings by Degree Level
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Maternal and Child Health Schools list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Maternal and Child Health in the United States
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the maternal and child health degrees they offer, see the list below.
Johns Hopkins University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in maternal and child health. Johns Hopkins is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Baltimore. A Best Colleges rank of #6 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Johns Hopkins is a great university overall.
There were approximately 75 maternal and child health students who graduated with this degree at Johns Hopkins in the most recent data year.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a great decision for students interested in a degree in maternal and child health. UNC Chapel Hill is a very large public university located in the city of Chapel Hill. A Best Colleges rank of #38 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UNC Chapel Hill is a great university overall.
There were approximately 6 maternal and child health students who graduated with this degree at UNC Chapel Hill in the most recent year we have data available.
Missouri State University - Springfield is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in maternal and child health. Located in the city of Springfield, Missouri State is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 10th out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were roughly 9 maternal and child health students who graduated with this degree at Missouri State in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in maternal and child health has to take a look at Union Institute & University. Located in the city of Cincinnati, Union is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly small student population. This university ranks 4th out of 91 colleges for overall quality in the state of Ohio.
There were about 17 maternal and child health students who graduated with this degree at Union 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).
The maternal and child health program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Maternal and Child Health rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for maternal and child health schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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