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2023 Most Popular Online Public Health Bachelor's Degree Schools in California

3 Colleges
$33,398 Avg Salary
$28,678 Avg Student Debt

Out of the majors we analyze each year, public health was ranked 3rd in California. In fact, 5,024 were awarded in the state in 2020-2021.

Today's healthcare students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Healthcare Degree Search has created the Most Popular Online Public Health Bachelor's Degree Schools in California to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in California to see which online bachelor's degree programs were the most popular for healthcare students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Online Public Health Bachelor's Degree Colleges.

#1

National University

La Jolla, CA

Our analysis found National University to be the most popular school for public health students who want to pursue an online bachelor’s degree in California. National University is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of La Jolla.

About 83% of the students majoring in public health at the school are women while 17% are male.

While working on their Bachelor's Degree, public health majors at National University accumulate an average of around $35,926 in student debt.

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#2

University of the People

Pasadena, CA

Out of the 3 online programs at schools in California that were part of this year’s ranking, University of the People landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the medium-sized city of Pasadena, University of the People is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.

Of the 19 students majoring in public health at University of the People, 47% are male and 53% are female.

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#3

Fremont College

Cerritos, CA

The in-demand online bachelor’s degree programs at Fremont College helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best public health schools in California. Fremont College is a small private for-profit school located in the large suburb of Cerritos.

Of the 5 students majoring in public health at Fremont College, 40% are male and 60% are female.

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State Degrees Awarded
Oregon 596
Washington 621
Nevada 119
Hawaii 104
Alaska 107

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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 averages are for the top 3 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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