2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 Southwest region, there were 1,436 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general health and wellness programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general health and wellness program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 a Master’s in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness in the Southwest Region

#1

Southern Methodist University

Dallas, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$47,478 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Health and Wellness Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #1 spot on the list. Southern Methodist University is located in Dallas, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 8 masters’s health and wellness degrees to qualified students.

SMU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Health & Wellness Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Southern Methodist University are $47,478, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on General Health & Wellness at Southern Methodist University

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness

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 Sandra M. Palumbo.

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