2022 Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for an Associate in the Southeast 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 “Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 5,006 people earned their degree in general health and wellness, making the major the 159th most popular in the United States.

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.

This year’s “Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general health and wellness program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

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

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

#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 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.

Regent also made our “Best General Health & Wellness Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend Regent is $15,267 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Health and Wellness students.

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. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified associates’s health and wellness students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region associate degree health and wellness students list, Tulane has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best General Health & Wellness Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Tulane University of Louisiana is $37,841 for southeast region associate degree health and wellness students.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about General Health & Wellness at Tulane

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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%.

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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Sandra M. Palumbo.

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