2022 Best Value Public Health Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina For Those Making $75-$110k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Public Health Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 South Carolina, there were 847 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,650 and $30,854 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 64 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Public Health Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in public health. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality 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 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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Best Value Public Health Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for south carolina master’s degree public health students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Health (Income $75-$110k) in South Carolina

#1

University of South Carolina - Columbia

Columbia, South Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$30,160 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$46,556 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of South Carolina - Columbia. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Public Health Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina For Those Making $75-$110k list. Columbia, South Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s public health degrees to 42 students in 2019-2020.

UofSC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Public Health Master’s Degree Schools in South Carolina” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UofSC are $30,160, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#2

Clemson University

Clemson, South Carolina

#2 in overall quality

$23,246 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Clemson University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Public Health Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina For Those Making $75-$110k. Clemson, South Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s public health degrees to 16 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Clemson, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Public Health Master’s Degree Schools in South Carolina” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Clemson University are $23,246, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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

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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