Public Health is of the hottest master's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #14 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in New Jersey to determine which ones were the best for public health students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 291 master's degrees in public health to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Public Health School for Your Master's Degree
The public health master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality public health program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
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 - How many other public health students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
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 master's 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 master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Public Health Master's Degree Schools in New Jersey ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Public Health in New Jersey
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in public health.
Top New Jersey Schools for a Master's in Public Health
Rutgers University - New Brunswick is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in public health. Located in the city of New Brunswick, Rutgers New Brunswick is a public university with a very large student population.
Those public health students who get their master's degree from Rutgers University - New Brunswick make $2,044 more than the typical public health grad.
Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in public health has to look into Montclair State University. Located in the large suburb of Montclair, Montclair State is a public university with a very large student population.
Master's students who receive their degree from the public health program make an average of $61,438 for their early career.
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 master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality public health program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
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