2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region
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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 Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region” 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 the Southeast region, there were 530 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 93 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in general health and wellness. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general health and wellness.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region”.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia College & State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region list. Georgia College is a public institution located in Milledgeville, Georgia. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 23 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Health & Wellness at Georgia College & State University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of the Cumberlands. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region. Williamsburg, Kentucky is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s health and wellness degrees to 45 students in 2020-2021.
Full Cumberlands General Health & Wellness Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alabama at Birmingham. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region. University of Alabama at Birmingham is located in Birmingham, Alabama and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 17 masters’s health and wellness degrees to qualified students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Health & Wellness at University of Alabama at Birmingham
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s 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 #4 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, and it awarded 8 masters’s health and wellness degrees in 2020-2021.
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%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on 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
- *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.
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