2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maternal and Child Health Major in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maternal and Child Health Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Maternal and Child Health is the 1032nd most popular major in the country with 163 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 5 maternal and child health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 maternal and child health graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maternal and Child Health Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in maternal and child health. That schools that top this list have a program in maternal and child health in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maternal and Child Health Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree maternal and child health students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Maternal and Child Health in the Southeast Region

1

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

#6 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maternal and Child Health Major in the Southeast Region list. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public institution located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Maternal and Child Health at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2

Tulane University of Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana

#21 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tulane University of Louisiana. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Maternal and Child Health Major in the Southeast Region. Tulane is a private not-for-profit institution located in New Orleans, Louisiana. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 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 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Tulane Maternal and Child Health Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Maternal and Child 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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