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2022 Best Value OSHA Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

6 Ranked Colleges
980 Degrees Awarded
$11,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value OSHA Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value OSHA Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking.

Occupational Safety & Health Technology is the 210th most popular major in the country with 3,416 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 2,023 occupational safety and health technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 980 occupational safety and health technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value OSHA Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in occupational safety and health technology/technician. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great occupational safety and health technology/technician programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the occupational safety and health technology/technician 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 OSHA Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree osha students.

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Occupational Safety & Health Technology in the Southeast Region

#1

Columbia Southern University

Orange Beach, Alabama
#6 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value OSHA Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Columbia Southern University landed the #1 spot on the list. Columbia Southern University is located in Orange Beach, Alabama and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 793 bachelors’s OSHA degrees to qualified students.

Columbia Southern University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Occupational Safety & Health Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Columbia Southern University is $10,368 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree OSHA students.

Full Columbia Southern University Occupational Safety & Health Technology Report

#2

Fairmont State University

Fairmont, West Virginia
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value OSHA Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Fairmont State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Fairmont, West Virginia, this small public school handed out 20 degrees to qualified bachelors’s OSHA students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree osha students list, Fairmont State has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Occupational Safety & Health Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $10,161 for southeast region bachelor’s degree osha students per year to attend Fairmont State.

Read more about Occupational Safety & Health Technology at Fairmont State University

#3

Murray State University

Murray, Kentucky
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Murray State University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value OSHA Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Murray State is a medium-sized school located in Murray, Kentucky that handed out 67 bachelors’s OSHA degrees in 2019-2020.

Murray State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Occupational Safety & Health Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $11,390 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree OSHA students per year to attend Murray State University.

Full Murray State Occupational Safety & Health Technology Report

#4

Jacksonville State University

Jacksonville, Alabama
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Jacksonville State University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value OSHA Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Jacksonville State University is a medium-sized school located in Jacksonville, Alabama that handed out 22 bachelors’s OSHA degrees in 2019-2020.

Jacksonville State University also made our “Best Occupational Safety & Health Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #3. It costs about $15,559 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree OSHA students per year to attend Jacksonville State University.

Full Jacksonville State University Occupational Safety & Health Technology Report

#4 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value OSHA Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southeastern Louisiana University landed the #5 spot on the list. Southeastern is a public institution located in Hammond, Louisiana. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 31 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Southeastern did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Occupational Safety & Health Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Southeastern is $12,171 for southeast region bachelor’s degree osha students.

Full Southeastern Louisiana University Occupational Safety & Health Technology Report

#6

Marshall University

Huntington, West Virginia
#5 in overall quality

With a ranking of #6, Marshall University did quite well on the 2022 Best Value OSHA Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Marshall University is a fairly large school located in Huntington, West Virginia that handed out 25 bachelors’s OSHA degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Marshall University, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Occupational Safety & Health Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Marshall University is $8,370 for southeast region bachelor’s degree osha students.

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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%.

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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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