2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Public Health in Mississippi

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Public Health Schools for an Associate in Mississippi” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Mississippi, there were 215 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,667 and $34,528 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 5 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,964 and $13,187 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Public Health Schools for an Associate in Mississippi” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Public Health Schools for an Associate in Mississippi

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Health Schools for an Associate in Mississippi.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Public Health in Mississippi

#1

Itawamba Community College

Fulton, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$5,107 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Itawamba Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Public Health Schools for an Associate in Mississippi list. ICC is a small public school situated in Fulton, Mississippi. It awarded 5 associates’s public health degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at ICC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Public Health Associate Degree Schools in Mississippi” ranking. It costs about $5,107 for Mississippi Associate Degree Public Health students per year to attend ICC.

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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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