2022 Best Value Public Health Schools for an Associate in Nebraska

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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 Nebraska, there were 160 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,057 and $39,036 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,631 and $16,562 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent public health programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the public health program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Public Health Schools for an Associate in Nebraska

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

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

#1

Northeast Community College

Norfolk, Nebraska

#1 in overall quality

$8,749 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Public Health Schools for an Associate in Nebraska that were part of this year’s ranking, Northeast Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Northeast Community College is located in Norfolk, Nebraska and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 associates’s public health degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our nebraska associate degree public health students list, Northeast has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Public Health Associate Degree Schools in Nebraska” ranking. It costs about $8,749 for nebraska associate degree public health students per year to attend Northeast.

Read more about Public Health at Northeast Community College

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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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