2025 Best Public Health Associate Degree Schools in New York
If you plan on getting your associate degree in
public health, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #104 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 6 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for public health students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 187 associate degrees in public health to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Public Health School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of public health for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality public health program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to public health students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of public health students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Student Debt - How easy is it for public health to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized public health related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for public health students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Public Health Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Public Health Associate Degree Schools in New York ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.