2023 Best Value Colleges for International Public Health/International Health in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value International Public Health/International Health Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
International Public Health/International Health is the 440th most popular major in the country with 1,599 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 252 international public health/international health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value International Public Health/International Health Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in international public health/international health. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent international public health/international health programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the international public health/international health program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value International Public Health/International Health Schools in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value International Public Health/International Health Schools in the Southeast Region.
Top 4 Best Value Colleges for International Public Health/International Health in the Southeast Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value International Public Health/International Health Schools in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mercer University landed the #1 spot on the list. Macon, Georgia is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s international public health/international health degrees to 25 students in 2020-2021.
Mercer also took the #4 spot in our “Best International Public Health/International Health Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Mercer University is $20,853 for Southeast Region International Public Health/International Health students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on International Public Health/International Health at Mercer
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Mason University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value International Public Health/International Health Schools in the Southeast Region list. Fairfax, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s international public health/international health degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at GMU, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best International Public Health/International Health Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend GMU is $19,551 for southeast region international public health/international health students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full GMU International Public Health/International Health Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emory University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value International Public Health/International Health Schools in the Southeast Region. Emory University is located in Atlanta, Georgia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 116 ’s international public health/international health degrees to qualified students.
Emory also took the #1 spot in our “Best International Public Health/International Health Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $22,597 for southeast region international public health/international health students per year to attend Emory.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Full Emory International Public Health/International Health Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value International Public Health/International Health Schools in the Southeast Region list. This fairly large school is located in Durham, North Carolina, and it awarded 87 ’s international public health/international health degrees in 2020-2021.
Duke also made our “Best International Public Health/International Health Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $32,459 for southeast region international public health/international health students per year to attend Duke.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about International Public Health/International Health at Duke
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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).
- 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
- *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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