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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 1,883 people earned their degree in public health/community nurse/nursing, making the major the 316th most popular in the United States.
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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 30 public health/community nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 4 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.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree public health/community nursing students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cedarville University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This small school is located in Cedarville, Ohio, and it awarded 4 masters’s public health/community nursing degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Cedarville University Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s 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 #2 spot on the list. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor is a large public school situated in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It awarded 24 masters’s public health/community nursing degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.
Read more about Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Wayne State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Wayne State is a public institution located in Detroit, Michigan. The school has a large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing at Wayne State University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Case Western Reserve University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Great Lakes Region. Case Western Reserve University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Cleveland, Ohio. It awarded 0 masters’s public health/community nursing degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Case Western Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing Report
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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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