2024 Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools in the Far Western US Region
7Colleges in the Far Western US Region
314Community Health and Preventive Medicine Degrees Awarded
A degree in community health and preventive medicine is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #281 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 7 schools in the Far Western US Region to determine which ones were the best for community health and preventive medicine students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 314 degrees in community health and preventive medicine during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Community Health and Preventive Medicine School
Your choice of community health and preventive medicine school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Community Health and Preventive Medicine School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Community Health and Preventive Medicine Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Community Health and Preventive Medicine in the Far Western US Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the community health and preventive medicine degree levels they offer.
Top Far Western US Region Schools in Community Health and Preventive Medicine
It's hard to beat University of California - Los Angeles if you wish to pursue a degree in community health and preventive medicine. Located in the large city of Los Angeles, UCLA is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #26 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UCLA is a great university overall.
There were roughly 9 community health and preventive medicine students who graduated with this degree at UCLA in the most recent year we have data available.
Stanford University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in community health and preventive medicine. Stanford is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Stanford. A Best Colleges rank of #3 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Stanford is a great university overall.
There were about 19 community health and preventive medicine students who graduated with this degree at Stanford in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat University of California - San Diego if you wish to pursue a degree in community health and preventive medicine. UCSD is a very large public university located in the city of La Jolla. A Best Colleges rank of #38 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UCSD is a great university overall.
There were about 16 community health and preventive medicine students who graduated with this degree at UCSD in the most recent data year.
97Community Health and Preventive Medicine Degrees Awarded
It's hard to beat Portland State University if you want to pursue a degree in community health and preventive medicine. Portland State University is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Portland. This university ranks 7th out of 30 schools for overall quality in the state of Oregon.
There were approximately 97 community health and preventive medicine students who graduated with this degree at Portland State University in the most recent year we have data available.
70Community Health and Preventive Medicine Degrees Awarded
Located in the large city of San Diego, National University is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 33rd out of 168 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were approximately 70 community health and preventive medicine students who graduated with this degree at National University in the most recent year we have data available.
Whitworth is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Spokane. This university ranks 13th out of 51 schools for overall quality in the state of Washington.
There were approximately 7 community health and preventive medicine students who graduated with this degree at Whitworth in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).