2022 Best Value Public Health Schools for a Doctorate in Louisiana

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 a Doctorate in Louisiana” 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 Louisiana, there were 355 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,875 and $45,334 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $79,594 and $127,014 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great public health programs and cost less that 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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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 a Doctorate in Louisiana”.

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Best Value Public Health Schools for a Doctorate in Louisiana

The colleges and universities below are the best for louisiana doctor’s degree public health students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Health in Louisiana

#1

Tulane University of Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana

#1 in overall quality

$61,176 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$76,460 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tulane University of Louisiana. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Public Health Schools for a Doctorate in Louisiana. This fairly large school is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, and it awarded 16 doctorate’s public health degrees in 2019-2020.

Tulane also took the #1 spot in our “Best Public Health Doctor’s Degree Schools in Louisiana” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Tulane are $61,176, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Article 25 Flickr.

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