2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Occupational Safety & Health Technology in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 OSHA Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 445 occupational safety and health technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value OSHA Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in occupational safety and health technology/technician. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent occupational safety and health technology/technician programs, but they also 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value OSHA Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Occupational Safety & Health Technology in the Southeast Region

#1

Columbia Southern University

Orange Beach, Alabama

#3 in overall quality

$4,035 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Columbia Southern University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value OSHA Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region. Located in Orange Beach, Alabama, this fairly large private for-profit school handed out 357 degrees to qualified masters’s OSHA students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Columbia Southern University, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Occupational Safety & Health Technology Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Columbia Southern University are $4,035, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Columbia Southern University Occupational Safety & Health Technology Report

#2

East Carolina University

Greenville, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$20,685 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend East Carolina University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value OSHA Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region. Greenville, North Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s OSHA degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region master’s degree osha students list, ECU has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Occupational Safety & Health Technology Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at ECU are $20,685, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Occupational Safety & Health Technology at ECU

#3

Murray State University

Murray, Kentucky

#2 in overall quality

$14,400 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

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 Master’s in the Southeast Region. Murray State University is a public institution located in Murray, Kentucky. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 17 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Murray State also made our “Best Occupational Safety & Health Technology Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #2. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Murray State University are $14,400.

Read more about Occupational Safety & Health Technology at Murray State

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Occupational Safety & Health Technology

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Gina Collecchia.

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