2022 Best Value Public Health Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US 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 Public Health Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 38,020 people earned their degree in public health, making the major the 27th most popular in the United States. 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 the Far Western US region, there were 6,007 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,265 and $37,494 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 59 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,689 and $18,419 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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The 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 Public Health Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region”.

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Best Value Public Health Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Health Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Public Health in the Far Western US Region

#1

Linn-Benton Community College

Albany, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$9,102 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Linn-Benton Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Public Health Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region. Linn-Benton Community College is a small school located in Albany, Oregon that handed out 1 associates’s public health degrees in 2019-2020.

LBCC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Public Health Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for LBCC is $9,102 for Far Western US Region Associate Degree Public Health students.

Read full report on Public Health at LBCC

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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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