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2022 Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid

4 Ranked Colleges
114 Degrees Awarded
$18,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor's in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Public Health is the 42nd most popular major in the country with 20,721 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across North Carolina, there were 343 general public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 114 general public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,192 and $24,368 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in general public health. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general public health programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general public health program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Public Health in North Carolina (With Aid)

#1

Appalachian State University

Boone, North Carolina
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Appalachian State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Appalachian State is located in Boone, North Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 40 bachelors’s general public health degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Appalachian State, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best General Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” ranking. It costs about $13,920 for North Carolina Bachelor’s Degree General Public Health students with aid per year to attend Appalachian State University.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Appalachian State General Public Health Report

#2

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Charlotte, North Carolina
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid. Charlotte, North Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s general public health degrees to 38 students in 2019-2020.

UNC Charlotte also made our “Best General Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list, coming in at #3. It costs about $16,529 for North Carolina Bachelor’s Degree General Public Health students with aid per year to attend University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read full report on General Public Health at UNC Charlotte

#3

University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Wilmington, North Carolina
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Carolina at Wilmington. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid. Located in Wilmington, North Carolina, this fairly large public school awarded 7 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s general public health students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UNCW, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” ranking. It costs about $19,055 for north carolina bachelor’s degree general public health students with aid per year to attend University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of North Carolina at Wilmington General Public Health Report

#4

Guilford College

Greensboro, North Carolina
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Guilford College landed the #4 spot on the list. Guilford is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Greensboro, North Carolina. It awarded 7 bachelors’s general public health degrees in 2019-2020.

Guilford also made our “Best General Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list, coming in at #4. The yearly cost to attend Guilford College is $22,996 for north carolina bachelor’s degree general public health students with aid.

Full Guilford College General Public Health Report

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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

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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