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2023 Most Popular Online Public Health Graduate Certificate Schools in California

2 Colleges
$61,096 Avg Salary
$21,203 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.

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 Graduate Certificate Schools in California ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in California to see which online graduate certificate programs were the most popular 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 graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to attend one of the most popular in California.

#1

Brandman University

Irvine, CA

Our 2023 rankings named Brandman University the most popular online school in California for public health students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the large city of Irvine, Brandman is a private not-for-profit school with a medium-sized student population.

Full Public Health at Brandman University Report

Our analysis found Southern California University of Health Sciences to be the most popular school for public health students who want to pursue an online graduate certificate in California. Located in the suburb of Whittier, SCU is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

Read full report on Public Health at Southern California University of Health Sciences

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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 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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