2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major 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 has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Health & Wellness is the 141st most popular major in the country with 6,105 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 530 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in general health and wellness. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general health and wellness program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness in the Southeast Region

1

Life University
Marietta, Georgia

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Life University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Marietta, Georgia, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified associates’s health and wellness students in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Health & Wellness at Life University

2

Tulane University of Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana

#21 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Tulane University of Louisiana landed the #2 spot on the list. Tulane University of Louisiana is located in New Orleans, Louisiana and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 30 associates’s health and wellness degrees to qualified students.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on General Health & Wellness at Tulane

2

Regent University
Virginia Beach, Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Regent University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region. Regent University is located in Virginia Beach, Virginia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 associates’s health and wellness degrees to qualified students.

Read more about General Health & Wellness at Regent

2

South University, Montgomery
Montgomery, Alabama

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South University, Montgomery. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region. Montgomery, Alabama is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s health and wellness degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about General Health & Wellness at South University, Montgomery

• Most Focused Associate 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.