2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Health Law in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Law Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Health Law is the 689th most popular major in the country with 468 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 28 health law graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 28 health law graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Law Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in health law. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in health law.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Law Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree health law students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Health Law in the Southeast Region

1

Samford University
Birmingham, Alabama

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Samford University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Law Major in the Southeast Region. Samford is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Birmingham, Alabama. It awarded 10 masters’s health law degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full Samford University Health Law Report

2

Nova Southeastern University
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Nova Southeastern University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Law Major in the Southeast Region list. Nova Southeastern University is located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 18 masters’s health law degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%.

Read full report on Health Law at Nova Southeastern University

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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.