2023 Best International Public Health/International Health Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
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Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for International Public Health/International Health for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for International Public Health/International Health for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in international public health/international health. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality international public health/international health programs as well as strong veteran support.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the international public health/international health program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for International Public Health/International Health for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree vets studying international public health/international health.
Top 2 Best International Public Health/International Health Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for International Public Health/International Health for a Master’s list. Located in Durham, North Carolina, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 33 degrees to qualified masters’s international public health/international health students in 2020-2021.
Duke also made our “Best International Public Health/International Health Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #2.Among the 16,172 students enrolled at Duke University, 36 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 9 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $18,387. During this same period, 8 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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. 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for International Public Health/International Health for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory University landed the #2 spot on the list. Emory University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Atlanta, Georgia. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 116 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our southeast region master’s degree vets studying international public health/international health list, Emory has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best International Public Health/International Health Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, Emory University supports 13,997 students, and 1 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 0 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $0. During this same period, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default 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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