2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Public Health Education and Promotion in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Health Education and Promotion Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Public Health Education and Promotion is the 165th most popular major in the country with 4,139 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southwest region, there were 522 public health education and promotion graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 52 public health education and promotion graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,470 and $15,074 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Health Education and Promotion Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in public health education and promotion. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their public health education and promotion program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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The public health education and promotion 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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Health Education and Promotion Major in the Southwest Region”.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Health Education and Promotion Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Health Education and Promotion Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 5 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Public Health Education and Promotion in the Southwest Region

1

Dine College
Tsaile, Arizona

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dine College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Health Education and Promotion Major in the Southwest Region list. Dine College is located in Tsaile, Arizona and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 40 associates’s public health education and promotion degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Public Health Education and Promotion at Dine College

2

Tohono O'Odham Community College
Sells, Arizona

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tohono O’Odham Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Health Education and Promotion Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Sells, Arizona, this small public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified associates’s public health education and promotion students in 2021-2022.

Read more about Public Health Education and Promotion at Tohono O’Odham Community College

3

Oklahoma City Community College
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma City Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Health Education and Promotion Major in the Southwest Region list. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s public health education and promotion degrees to 7 students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Public Health Education and Promotion at Oklahoma City Community College

4

Austin Community College District
Austin, Texas

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Health Education and Promotion Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Austin Community College District landed the #4 spot on the list. Austin, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s public health education and promotion degrees to 5 students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Public Health Education and Promotion at Austin Community College District

5

University of New Mexico - Gallup Campus
Gallup, New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Mexico - Gallup Campus. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Health Education and Promotion Major in the Southwest Region list. University of New Mexico - Gallup Campus is a small public school situated in Gallup, New Mexico. It awarded 0 associates’s public health education and promotion degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UNM Gallup Public Health Education and Promotion Report

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

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