by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Health Major in Tennessee” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Public Health is the 26th most popular major in the country with 40,596 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, public health graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $43,158 and had an average of $27,396 in loans still to pay off.
Across Tennessee, there were 390 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,428 and $26,387 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 16 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,342 and $21,173 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Health Major in Tennessee” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in public health. That schools that top this list have a program in public health in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Health Major in Tennessee” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Health Major in Tennessee”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Roane State Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Health Major in Tennessee. Harriman, Tennessee is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s public health degrees to 15 students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Public Health at Roane State Community College
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Public Health Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Johnson University landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Knoxville, Tennessee, and it awarded 1 associates’s public health degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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