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Most Popular Online Public Health Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

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2023 Most Popular Online Public Health Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

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$30,540 Avg Salary
$23,619 Avg Student Debt

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

Today's healthcare students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Healthcare Degree Search has developed this Most Popular Online Public Health Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 1 school in the Southwest Region offering online associate degree programs for healthcare students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

Check out the online public health associate degree programs at this school if you want to attend one of the most popular in the Southwest Region .

Our analysis found New Mexico State University - Dona Ana to be the most popular school for public health students who want to pursue an online associate degree in the Southwest Region . Located in the rural area of Las Cruces, NMSU Dona Ana is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

Women make up 91% of the public health majors at the school.

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State Degrees Awarded
Texas 2,111
Arizona 1,067
Oklahoma 312
New Mexico 159

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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

Majors Similar to Public Health

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 values are for the top school 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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