2023 Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
82
Degrees Awarded
$33,500
Avg Cost*
Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Community Health and Preventive Medicine” ranking - to help you make that decision.
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.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality community health and preventive medicine programs as well as strong veteran support.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the community health and preventive medicine program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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The community health and preventive medicine school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Community Health and Preventive Medicine”.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Community Health and Preventive Medicine
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region vets studying community health and preventive medicine.
Top 1 Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of the Incarnate Word. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Community Health and Preventive Medicine. San Antonio, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s community health and preventive medicine degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.
UIW did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] on our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” list.Among the 7,917 students enrolled at University of the Incarnate Word, 1,174 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 761 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $10,131. To help with additional expenses, 87 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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