2022 Best Value Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 2,318 people earned their degree in community health and preventive medicine, making the major the 270th most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 294 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 196 community health and preventive medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,083 and $22,209 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in community health and preventive medicine. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent community health and preventive medicine programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the community health and preventive medicine program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Community Health and Preventive Medicine in the Far Western US Region

#1

National University

La Jolla, California

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend National University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region list. La Jolla, California is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s community health and preventive medicine degrees to 75 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at National University, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full National University Community Health and Preventive Medicine Report

#2

Portland State University

Portland, Oregon

#3 in overall quality

$13,040 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Portland State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Portland, Oregon is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s community health and preventive medicine degrees to 108 students in 2019-2020.

Portland State University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Portland State University is $13,040 for Far Western US Region Bachelor’s Degree Community Health and Preventive Medicine students.

Read more about Community Health and Preventive Medicine at Portland State University

#3

Whitworth University

Spokane, Washington

#2 in overall quality

$25,557 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Whitworth University landed the #3 spot on the list. Spokane, Washington is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s community health and preventive medicine degrees to 13 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Whitworth, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Whitworth is $25,557 for Far Western US Region Bachelor’s Degree Community Health and Preventive Medicine students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Community Health and Preventive Medicine at Whitworth

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Community Health and Preventive Medicine

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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Article 25 Flickr.

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