2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing in the Great Lakes Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking.

Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing is the 316th most popular major in the country with 1,883 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 75 public health/community nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 public health/community nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,305 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in public health/community nurse/nursing. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their public health/community nurse/nursing program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region doctor’s degree public health/community nursing students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing in the Great Lakes Region

1

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, Michigan

#4 overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor landed the #1 spot on the list. U-M is a large school located in Ann Arbor, Michigan that handed out 9 doctorate’s public health/community nursing degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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2

Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wayne State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Wayne State University is located in Detroit, Michigan and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 doctorate’s public health/community nursing degrees to qualified students.

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• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing

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.

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