2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness in the Southwest Region
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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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest 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 Southwest region, there were 1,958 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 40 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 4 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.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree health and wellness students.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Texas Health Science Center. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region list. UNT Health Science Center is a public institution located in Fort Worth, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 32 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about General Health & Wellness at UNT Health Science Center
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Dallas, Texas, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 6 diplomas to qualified masters’s health and wellness students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.
Read full report on General Health & Wellness at Southern Methodist University
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #3 spot on the list. ASU - Tempe is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 2 masters’s health and wellness degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 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 ASU - Tempe
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southwestern College landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s health and wellness students in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%.
Read full report on General Health & Wellness at Southwestern College
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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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