2022 Best Value General Public Health Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value General Public Health Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Southeast region, there were 4,401 general public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 50 general public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general public health program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

More Ways to Rank General Public Health Schools

The general public health school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value General Public Health Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region”.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Value General Public Health Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree general public health students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Public Health in the Southeast Region

#1

American Public University System

Charles Town, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$10,222 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American Public University System. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value General Public Health Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. American Public University System is a private for-profit institution located in Charles Town, West Virginia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 50 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

American Military University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Public Health Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $10,222 for Southeast Region Associate Degree General Public Health students per year to attend American Military University.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 98%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on General Public Health at American Military University

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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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