2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the Southeast Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Other Public Health is the 216th most popular major in the country with 3,136 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 177 other public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 86 other public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 7 colleges that offer a degree 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 Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the Southeast Region”.
Top 7 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Health in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Morehouse School of Medicine. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the Southeast Region list. MSM is a small school located in Atlanta, Georgia that handed out 0 masters’s other public health degrees in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Full MSM Other Public Health Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tulane University of Louisiana. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the Southeast Region. New Orleans, Louisiana 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 32 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Full Tulane University of Louisiana Other Public Health Report
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga landed the #3 spot on the list. Chattanooga, Tennessee is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s other public health degrees to 16 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga Other Public Health Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of South Florida - Main Campus. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the Southeast Region list. USF Tampa is a large public school situated in Tampa, Florida. It awarded 12 masters’s other public health degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Other Public Health at University of South Florida - Main Campus
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Clemson University landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Clemson, South Carolina, this large public school awarded 13 diplomas to qualified masters’s other public health students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Clemson University Other Public Health Report
The University of Alabama did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #6. Tuscaloosa, Alabama is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s other public health degrees to 13 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Other Public Health at The University of Alabama
Emory University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #7. This fairly large school is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and it awarded 0 masters’s other public health degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.4%, 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 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.
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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%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *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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