2022 Best Value Public Health/Community Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k

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 “Best Value Public Health/Community Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 1,588 people earned their degree in public health/community nurse/nursing, making the major the 421st most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 90 public health/community nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 68 public health/community nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Public Health/Community Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in public health/community nurse/nursing. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great public health/community nurse/nursing programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the public health/community nurse/nursing program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Public Health/Community Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Health/Community Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing (Income $75-$110k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Bluefield College

Bluefield, Virginia

#2 in overall quality

$23,313 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bluefield College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Public Health/Community Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k. Bluefield, Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s public health/community nursing degrees to 29 students in 2019-2020.

Bluefield College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Bluefield College is $23,313 for southeast region bachelor’s degree public health/community nursing students whose families make $75-$110k.

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#2

University of Miami

Coral Gables, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$44,741 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Public Health/Community Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Miami landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Coral Gables, Florida, and it awarded 39 bachelors’s public health/community nursing degrees in 2019-2020.

U Miami not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Miami is $44,741 for southeast region bachelor’s degree public health/community nursing students whose families make $75-$110k.

With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing (Income $75-$110k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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