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2023 Best Value Public Health Basic Certificate Schools in Kentucky

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$4,488 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Public Health Basic Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, public health students earned 371 degrees and certificates from a Kentucky school, making the subject the 7th in the state.

With all the healthcare programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

The Best Value Public Health Basic Certificate Schools in Kentucky ranking is one of many tools that Healthcare Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in Kentucky to see which ones offered the best value basic certificate programs for public health students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Best Kentucky Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in Public Health

Our 2023 rankings named Big Sandy Community and Technical College the best value school in Kentucky for public health students working on their basic certificate. Located in the remote town of Prestonsburg, Big Sandy Community and Technical College is a public school with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Big Sandy Community and Technical College are $4,488 per year.

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Western Kentucky University

Bowling Green, KY

Out of the 2 schools in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Kentucky University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the small city of Bowling Green, WKU is a public college with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at WKU are $10,992 a year.

WKU did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Public Health Basic Certificate Schools in Kentucky list.

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Best Value Public Health Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Public Health Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Florida 2,030
North Carolina 1,477
Tennessee 390
Georgia 1,455
West Virginia 352
Virginia 1,071
Alabama 700
Louisiana 362
Mississippi 219
South Carolina 859
Arkansas 233

Public Health is one of 30 different types of healthcare programs to choose from.

Public Health Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
General Public Health 22,778
Public Health Education and Promotion 4,563
Other Public Health 3,432
Health Services Administration 3,119
Community Health and Preventive Medicine 2,272
International Public Health/International Health 1,599
Environmental Health 1,344
Behavioral Aspects of Health 814
Health/Medical Physics 258
Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene 211
Maternal and Child Health 163
Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality 43

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274
Allied Health Professions 82,308

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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