2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Health in District of Columbia

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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 District of Columbia, there were 833 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,445 and $23,536 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 216 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,584 and $27,317 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Health Major in District of Columbia” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Health Major in District of Columbia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Health Major in District of Columbia”.

Top 5 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Health in District of Columbia

1

American University
Washington, District of Columbia

#3 overall quality in District of Columbia

$36,775 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,250 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Health Major in District of Columbia list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 82 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s public health students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%.

Full American University Public Health Report

2

University of the District of Columbia
Washington, District of Columbia

#8 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the District of Columbia. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Health Major in District of Columbia list. University of the District of Columbia is a public institution located in Washington, District of Columbia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full University of the District of Columbia Public Health Report

3

George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#2 overall quality in District of Columbia

$23,822 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Washington University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Health Major in District of Columbia list. George Washington University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Washington, District of Columbia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 97 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.

Full GWU Public Health Report

4

Gallaudet University
Washington, District of Columbia

#5 overall quality in District of Columbia

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Health Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Gallaudet University landed the #4 spot on the list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s public health degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Public Health at Gallaudet

5

Georgetown University
Washington, District of Columbia

#1 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgetown University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Health Major in District of Columbia list. Georgetown is a large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 24 bachelors’s public health degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Georgetown University 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

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