2023 Schools Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the New England Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the New England region, there were 4 public health/community nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in public health/community nurse/nursing. That schools that top this list have a program in public health/community nurse/nursing in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the New England Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Schools Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region public health/community nursing students.

Top 3 Most Focused Colleges for Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing in the New England Region

1

University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth
North Dartmouth, Massachusetts

$47,962 Average Early-Career Earnings

$27,083 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the New England Region. Located in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, this medium-sized public school awarded 3 degrees to qualified ’s public health/community nursing students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing at University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth

2

Rhode Island College
Providence, Rhode Island

$42,201 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,418 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Rhode Island College landed the #2 spot on the list. Providence, Rhode Island is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s public health/community nursing degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Full Rhode Island College Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing Report

3

University of Hartford
West Hartford, Connecticut

$47,236 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,908 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hartford landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in West Hartford, Connecticut, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified ’s public health/community nursing students in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full UHart Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing Report

• Most Focused 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Aleksahgabrielle.