2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing in the Southeast Region

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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Southeast 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 Southeast region, there were 83 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 17 public health/community nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in public health/community nurse/nursing. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in public health/community nurse/nursing.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Southeast Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing in the Southeast Region

1

Jacksonville State University
Jacksonville, Alabama

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Jacksonville State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Jacksonville, Alabama, this medium-sized public school handed out 17 degrees to qualified masters’s public health/community nursing students in 2020-2021.

Full Jacksonville State University Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing Report

2

Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

#5 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory University landed the #2 spot on the list. Atlanta, Georgia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s public health/community nursing degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing at Emory University

• Most Focused Master’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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