2022 Best Value International Public Health/International Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value International Public Health/International Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 1,540 people earned their degree in international public health/international health, making the major the 426th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 250 international public health/international health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 78 international public health/international health graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value International Public Health/International Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in international public health/international health. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality international public health/international health programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the international public health/international health program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value International Public Health/International Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value International Public Health/International Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International Public Health/International Health in the Southeast Region

#1

Mercer University

Macon, Georgia

#2 in overall quality

$21,464 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mercer University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value International Public Health/International Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Mercer is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Macon, Georgia. It awarded 31 bachelors’s international public health/international health degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree international public health/international health students list, Mercer has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best International Public Health/International Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $21,464 for southeast region bachelor’s degree international public health/international health students per year to attend Mercer University.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Mercer International Public Health/International Health Report

#2

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$27,020 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value International Public Health/International Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Duke is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Durham, North Carolina. It awarded 47 bachelors’s international public health/international health degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree international public health/international health students list, Duke has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best International Public Health/International Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Duke is $27,020 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree International Public Health/International Health students.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 0.9% 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 full report on International Public Health/International Health at Duke University

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International Public Health/International Health

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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