2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health Major in Delaware

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In 2020-2021, 40,596 people earned their degree in public health, making the major the 26th most popular in the United States. 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 Delaware, there were 204 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,641 and $26,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 29 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,559 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health Major in Delaware” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in public health. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their public health program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health Major in Delaware

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Health in Delaware

1

University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware

#1 overall quality in Delaware

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Delaware. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health Major in Delaware. Located in Newark, Delaware, this large public school handed out 21 diplomas to qualified masters’s public health students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

Read full report on Public Health at UD

2

Wilmington University
New Castle, Delaware

#3 overall quality in Delaware

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wilmington University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health Major in Delaware. Wilmington University is located in New Castle, Delaware and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 8 masters’s public health degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Public Health at Wilmington University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Health in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Health

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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