2024 Best Epidemiology Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
198Epidemiology Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in epidemiology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #280 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for epidemiology students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 198 degrees in epidemiology to qualified students.
Your choice of epidemiology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for epidemiology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Epidemiology Schools in the Southwest Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Epidemiology in the Southwest Region
The schools below may not offer all types of epidemiology degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is a great option for students interested in a degree in epidemiology. UTHealth is a medium-sized public university located in the city of Houston.
There were about 122 epidemiology students who graduated with this degree at UTHealth in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat Texas A&M University - College Station if you wish to pursue a degree in epidemiology. Located in the midsize city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public university with a fairly large student population.
There were roughly 41 epidemiology students who graduated with this degree at Texas A&M College Station in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in epidemiology has to look into University of North Texas Health Science Center. UNT Health Science Center is a small public university located in the city of Fort Worth.
There were approximately 13 epidemiology students who graduated with this degree at UNT Health Science Center in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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