2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness in Tennessee

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in Tennessee” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across Tennessee, there were 22 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,466 and $26,819 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in Tennessee” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in general health and wellness. That schools that top this list have a program in general health and wellness in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in Tennessee

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in Tennessee”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness in Tennessee

1

Maryville College
Maryville, Tennessee

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Maryville College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in Tennessee. Maryville College is a small school located in Maryville, Tennessee that handed out 11 bachelors’s health and wellness degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Maryville College General Health & Wellness Report

2

Bethel University
McKenzie, Tennessee

#22 overall quality in Tennessee

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Bethel University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in McKenzie, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 5 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s health and wellness students in 2020-2021.

Full Bethel University General Health & Wellness Report

3

Lipscomb University
Nashville, Tennessee

#6 overall quality in Tennessee

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Lipscomb University landed the #3 spot on the list. Lipscomb University is located in Nashville, Tennessee and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 bachelors’s health and wellness degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about General Health & Wellness at Lipscomb University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’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

• *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.