2023 Most Popular Colleges for Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Southwest region, there were 140 public health/community nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in public health/community nurse/nursing. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular public health/community nurse/nursing programs in the United States.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Southwest Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Most Well Attended Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing in the Southwest Region

1

Aspen University
Denver, Colorado

$83,891 Average Early-Career Earnings

$35,489 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Aspen University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Southwest Region list. Aspen University is a medium-sized school located in Denver, Colorado that handed out 1,430 ’s public health/community nursing degrees 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. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Aspen University Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing Report

2

Grand Canyon University
Phoenix, Arizona

#24 overall quality in Southwest

$48,396 Average Early-Career Earnings

$30,057 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Public Health/Community Nursing Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Grand Canyon University landed the #2 spot on the list. Grand Canyon University is a large school located in Phoenix, Arizona that handed out 140 ’s public health/community nursing degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 5.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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

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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

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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