2023 Most Well Attended Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate

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 “Most Well Attended Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 6,105 people earned their degree in general health and wellness, making the major the 141st most popular in the United States.

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 “Most Well Attended Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in general health and wellness. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular general health and wellness programs in the United States.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate”.

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

1

Life University
Marietta, Georgia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Life University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate. Life is a private not-for-profit institution located in Marietta, Georgia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Health & Wellness at Life

2

Tulane University of Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana

#21 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tulane University of Louisiana. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate list. New Orleans, Louisiana is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s health and wellness degrees to 30 students in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. 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%. 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

2

Regent University
Virginia Beach, Virginia

Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Regent University landed the #2 spot on the list. Regent University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Health & Wellness at Regent

2

South University, Montgomery
Montgomery, Alabama

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South University, Montgomery. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Health and Wellness Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate list. 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.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full South University, Montgomery General Health & Wellness Report

• Most Popular 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.