2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Health Communication in the Far Western US Region

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 “Most Well Attended Health Communication Major in the Far Western US Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Health Communication is the 674th most popular major in the country with 410 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 71 health communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 58 health communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,720 and $23,024 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Health Communication Major in the Far Western US Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in health communication. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in health communication.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Health Communication Major in the Far Western US Region for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Health Communication Major in the Far Western US Region for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Health Communication in the Far Western US Region

1

San Diego State University
San Diego, California

Top 15% overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend San Diego State University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Health Communication Major in the Far Western US Region for a Bachelor’s. This large school is located in San Diego, California, and it awarded 53 bachelors’s health communication degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full SDSU Health Communication Report

2

Pacific Union College
Angwin, California

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Health Communication Major in the Far Western US Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Pacific Union College landed the #2 spot on the list. Angwin, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s health communication degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.

Full PUC Health Communication Report

• Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Health Communication

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

• *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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Bill Koplitz.