2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the New England Region
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Other Public Health is the 216th most popular major in the country with 3,136 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the New England region, there were 104 other public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 82 other public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,593 and $42,781 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other public health. That schools that top this list have a program in other public health in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the New England Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the New England Region”.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Health in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tufts University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the New England Region list. Medford, Massachusetts is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s other public health degrees to 39 students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read more about Other Public Health at Tufts
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Boston University landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 43 masters’s other public health degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Other Public Health at Boston U
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harvard University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the New England Region list. This large school is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and it awarded 0 masters’s other public health degrees in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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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%.
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- *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.
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