2022 Best Value Public Health Schools for a Doctorate in West Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k

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 Public Health Schools for a Doctorate in West Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Public Health is the 27th most popular major in the country with 38,020 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, public health graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $41,740 and had an average of $35,895 in loans still to pay off.

Across West Virginia, there were 333 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,800 and $34,096 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

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

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the 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 Public Health Schools for a Doctorate in West Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for west virginia doctor’s degree public health students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Health (Income $0-$30k) in West Virginia

#1

West Virginia University

Morgantown, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$26,154 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Public Health Schools for a Doctorate in West Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, West Virginia University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Morgantown, West Virginia, this large public school handed out 1 degrees to qualified doctorate’s public health students in 2019-2020.

WVU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Public Health Doctor’s Degree Schools in West Virginia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at West Virginia University are $26,154, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Public Health at West Virginia University

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Health (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Health (Income $0-$30k)

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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