2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Health in the Middle Atlantic Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$30,900
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Other Public Health is the 216th most popular major in the country with 3,432 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 1,318 other public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 other public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,076 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other public health. That schools that top this list have a program in other public health in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region doctor’s degree other public health students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Other Public Health in the Middle Atlantic Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Johns Hopkins University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Baltimore, Maryland is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s other public health degrees to 12 students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.
Read full report on Other Public Health at Johns Hopkins University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Public Health Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Pitt is a public institution located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The school has a large population, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.9% 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 full report on Other Public Health at University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus
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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
- *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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