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2023 Best Value Public Health Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$14,142 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$18,354 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Public Health Undergraduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 40,596 public health students received a degree or certificate, making the major the #4 most popular in the country.

There are so many healthcare programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one 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 Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region 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 the Southeast Region to see which ones offered the best value undergraduate certificate programs for public health students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Public Health Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Public Health Undergraduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Southeast Region Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking 1 to 4 Years in Public Health

Our analysis found Eastern Florida State College to be the best value school for public health students who want to pursue a undergraduate certificate in the Southeast Region . EFSC is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Cocoa.

EFSC undergraduate students pay an average of $10,976 in tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Public Health at Eastern Florida State College

Out of the 2 schools in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Bryant & Stratton College - Virginia Beach landed the # 2 spot on the list. Bryant & Stratton College - Virginia Beach is a small private for-profit school located in the city of Virginia Beach.

Bryant & Stratton College - Virginia Beach undergraduate students pay an average of $17,308 in tuition and fees each year.

Full Public Health at Bryant & Stratton College - Virginia Beach Report

Best Public Health Colleges by State

Explore the best public health schools for a specific state in the Southeast region.

State Degrees Awarded
Florida 2,030
North Carolina 1,477
Tennessee 390
Georgia 1,455
Kentucky 371
West Virginia 352
Virginia 1,071
Alabama 700
Louisiana 362
Mississippi 219
South Carolina 859
Arkansas 233

One of 30 majors within the healthcare area of study, public health has other similar majors worth exploring.

Public Health Concentrations

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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