2022 Best Value General Public Health Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value General Public Health Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 20,721 people earned their degree in general public health, making the major the 42nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 4,401 general public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 50 general public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general public health programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general public health program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value General Public Health Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value General Public Health Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value General Public Health Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Public Health in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

American Public University System

Charles Town, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$10,222 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American Public University System. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value General Public Health Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid list. Charles Town, West Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s general public health degrees to 50 students in 2019-2020.

American Military University also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Public Health Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $10,222 for southeast region associate degree general public health students with aid per year to attend American Public University System.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 98%.

Read full report on General Public Health at American Public University System

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Public Health (With Aid)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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