2022 Best Value Public Health Schools for an Associate in West Virginia

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Public Health Schools for an Associate in West Virginia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 West Virginia, there were 333 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,800 and $34,096 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 50 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality public health programs that also have a lower cost than 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 public health program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Public Health Schools for an Associate in West Virginia

The colleges and universities below are the best for west virginia associate degree public health students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Public Health in West Virginia

#1

American Public University System

Charles Town, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$10,222 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American Public University System. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Public Health Schools for an Associate in West Virginia list. American Military University is located in Charles Town, West Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 50 associates’s public health degrees to qualified students.

American Military University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Public Health Associate Degree Schools in West Virginia” list. The yearly cost to attend American Public University System is $10,222 for West Virginia Associate Degree Public Health students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 98%.

Full American Public University System Public Health Report

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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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