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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Public Health Education and Promotion Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 4,563 people earned their degree in public health education and promotion, making the major the 165th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 586 public health education and promotion graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 public health education and promotion graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,218 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Public Health Education and Promotion Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in public health education and promotion. That schools that top this list have a program in public health education and promotion in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Public Health Education and Promotion Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree public health education and promotion students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Public Health Education and Promotion Major in the Southwest Region list. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is a medium-sized public school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 8 doctorate’s public health education and promotion degrees in 2020-2021.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Public Health Education and Promotion Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Oklahoma - Health Sciences Center landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s public health education and promotion degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read more about Public Health Education and Promotion at UOHSC
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Austin. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Public Health Education and Promotion Major in the Southwest Region list. UT Austin is located in Austin, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 doctorate’s public health education and promotion degrees to qualified students.
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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Public Health Education and Promotion at UT Austin
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- 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
- *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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