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

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Southwest region, there were 1,958 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 68 general health and wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in general health and wellness. To top this list, a school must have a successful general health and wellness program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree health and wellness students.

Top 5 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness in the Southwest Region

1

Carrington College, Phoenix North
Phoenix, Arizona

Out of the 5 schools in the Most Well Attended Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Carrington College, Phoenix North landed the #1 spot on the list. Phoenix, Arizona is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s health and wellness degrees to 50 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Health & Wellness at Carrington College, Phoenix North

2

Tyler Junior College
Tyler, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tyler Junior College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate list. Tyler Junior College is located in Tyler, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 16 associates’s health and wellness degrees to qualified students.

Read more about General Health & Wellness at Tyler Junior College

3

Angelina College
Lufkin, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Angelina College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate list. AC is a small public school situated in Lufkin, Texas. It awarded 2 associates’s health and wellness degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Health & Wellness at AC

4

Palo Alto College
San Antonio, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Palo Alto College. The school came in at #4 for the Most Well Attended Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate. San Antonio, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s health and wellness degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Health & Wellness at Palo Alto College

4

South University, Austin
Round Rock, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South University, Austin. The school came in at #4 for the Most Well Attended Health and Wellness Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate. Located in Round Rock, Texas, this small private for-profit school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified associates’s health and wellness students in 2020-2021.

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

• 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.