2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Community Health and Preventive Medicine in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Community Health and Preventive Medicine is the 281st most popular major in the country with 2,272 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 350 community health and preventive medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 community health and preventive medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,076 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Health and Preventive Medicine Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in community health and preventive medicine. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in community health and preventive medicine.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Health and Preventive Medicine Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Health and Preventive Medicine Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Community Health and Preventive Medicine in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, Maryland

#11 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maryland - College Park. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Health and Preventive Medicine Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. College Park, Maryland is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s community health and preventive medicine degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UMCP Community Health and Preventive Medicine Report

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University at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Health and Preventive Medicine Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University at Buffalo landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Buffalo, New York, this large public school handed out 2 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s community health and preventive medicine students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Community Health and Preventive Medicine at University at Buffalo

• Most Focused Doctor’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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