2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Health and Preventive Medicine Major in the Southwest 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 Southwest region, there were 82 community health and preventive medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 0 community health and preventive medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Health and Preventive Medicine Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in community health and preventive medicine. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their community health and preventive medicine program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’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 master’s degree community health and preventive medicine students.

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

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The University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at El Paso. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Health and Preventive Medicine Major in the Southwest Region. Located in El Paso, Texas, this large public school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s community health and preventive medicine students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Community Health and Preventive Medicine at UTEP

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The University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas

#3 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas Medical Branch. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Health and Preventive Medicine Major in the Southwest Region. Galveston, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s community health and preventive medicine degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate 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. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% 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%.

Read more about Community Health and Preventive Medicine at UTMB Galveston

• Most Focused Master’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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