2022 Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

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 Health and Wellness Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Health & Wellness is the 159th most popular major in the country with 5,006 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 402 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 5 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general health and wellness. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general health and wellness programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general health and wellness program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

Regent University

Virginia Beach, Virginia

#2 in overall quality

$15,267 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Regent University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid list. Virginia Beach, Virginia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s health and wellness degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Regent, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best General Health & Wellness Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Regent University is $15,267 for southeast region associate degree health and wellness students with aid.

Read full report on General Health & Wellness at Regent

#2

Tulane University of Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana

#1 in overall quality

$37,841 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tulane University of Louisiana. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid. Tulane is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in New Orleans, Louisiana. It awarded 3 associates’s health and wellness degrees in 2019-2020.

Tulane also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Health & Wellness Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Tulane is $37,841 for southeast region associate degree health and wellness students with aid.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full Tulane University of Louisiana General Health & Wellness Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness (With Aid)

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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