2022 Best Value Public Health Schools for a Doctorate in Alabama For Those Making $30-$48k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Public Health Schools for a Doctorate in Alabama For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Public Health is the 27th most popular major in the country with 38,020 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, public health graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $41,740 and had an average of $35,895 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alabama, there were 621 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $50,600 and $25,850 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $81,644 and $113,063 respectively.

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

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the public health program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Public Health Schools for a Doctorate in Alabama For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Public Health Schools for a Doctorate in Alabama For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for alabama doctor’s degree public health students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Health (Income $30-$48k) in Alabama

#1

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

$19,188 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Public Health Schools for a Doctorate in Alabama For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alabama at Birmingham landed the #1 spot on the list. Birmingham, Alabama is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s public health degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UAB, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Public Health Doctor’s Degree Schools in Alabama” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UAB are $19,188, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Health (Income $30-$48k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Health (Income $30-$48k)

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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