2022 Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 District of Columbia” 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 District of Columbia, there were 122 general public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 75 general public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,446 and $25,767 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general public health programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general public health program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia

The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia bachelor’s degree general public health students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Public Health in District of Columbia

#1

American University

Washington, District of Columbia

#1 in overall quality

$43,451 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia list. The American University is a fairly large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 75 bachelors’s general public health degrees in 2019-2020.

The American University also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” ranking. The yearly cost to attend American University is $43,451 for district of columbia bachelor’s degree general public health students.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 2.5% 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%.

Read more about General Public Health at The American 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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