2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Community Health and Preventive Medicine (Income $48-$75k) in Massachusetts

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 “Best Value Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools for a Bachelor’s in Massachusetts For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Community Health and Preventive Medicine is the 270th most popular major in the country with 2,318 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Massachusetts, there were 104 community health and preventive medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 63 community health and preventive medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,887 and $24,387 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great community health and preventive medicine programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the community health and preventive medicine program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools for a Bachelor’s in Massachusetts For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools for a Bachelor’s in Massachusetts For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Community Health and Preventive Medicine (Income $48-$75k) in Massachusetts

#1

Tufts University

Medford, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$13,525 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools for a Bachelor’s in Massachusetts For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Tufts University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Medford, Massachusetts, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 63 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s community health and preventive medicine students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Tufts, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Tufts is $13,525 for Massachusetts Bachelor’s Degree Community Health and Preventive Medicine students whose families make $48-$75k.

The low student loan default rate of 1.2% 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 student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on Community Health and Preventive Medicine at Tufts

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Community Health and Preventive Medicine (Income $48-$75k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Community Health and Preventive Medicine (Income $48-$75k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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