2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Community Health and Preventive Medicine in the Southwest Region

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In 2020-2021, 2,272 people earned their degree in community health and preventive medicine, making the major the 281st most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 82 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 11 community health and preventive medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Health and Preventive Medicine Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in community health and preventive medicine. That schools that top this list have a program in community health and preventive medicine in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Health and Preventive Medicine Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree community health and preventive medicine students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Community Health and Preventive Medicine in the Southwest Region

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University of the Incarnate Word
San Antonio, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Health and Preventive Medicine Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of the Incarnate Word landed the #1 spot on the list. University of the Incarnate Word is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in San Antonio, Texas. It awarded 11 bachelors’s community health and preventive medicine degrees in 2020-2021.

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%.

Read full report on Community Health and Preventive Medicine at UIW

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Texas A&M University - San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Health and Preventive Medicine Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - San Antonio landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in San Antonio, Texas, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s community health and preventive medicine degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Texas A&M San Antonio Community Health and Preventive Medicine Report

• Most Focused 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

• *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

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