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Most Popular Schools for General Public Health Major & Degree Program

A program that generally prepares individuals to plan, manage, and evaluate public health care services; to function as public health professionals in public agencies, the private sector, and other settings; and to provide leadership in the field of public health. Includes instruction in epidemiology, biostatistics, public health principles, preventive medicine, health policy and regulations, health care services and related administrative functions, public health law enforcement, health economics and budgeting, public communications, and professional standards and ethics.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Johns Hopkins University 539 6% $71,901
2 University of South Florida-Main Campus 486 4% $23,320
3 University of California-Berkeley 440 4% $38,066
4 University of Arizona 426 5% $29,217
5 California State University-Northridge 403 4% $22,969
6 Harvard University 389 6% $71,650
7 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 378 5% $30,913
8 Rutgers University-New Brunswick 368 3% $32,443
9 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 328 3% $27,638
10 Liberty University 297 2% $40,075
11 Columbia University in the City of New York 281 2% $76,856
12 University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus 275 6% $29,357
13 New York University 269 2% $73,566
14 Kent State University at Kent 265 4% $25,886
15 Northern Arizona University 256 3% $27,266
16 Oregon State University 246 3% $26,892
17 University of Alabama at Birmingham 227 5% $26,336
18 Benedictine University 219 11% $50,006
19 Walden University 217 2% $13,020
20 California State University-Los Angeles 204 3% $26,139
21 University of New England 204 15% $56,560
22 University of Illinois at Chicago 199 3% $30,866
23 University of California-San Diego 194 2% $32,838
24 Yale University 190 5% $73,900
25 Ohio State University-Main Campus 185 1% $27,367
26 The University of Texas at San Antonio 185 3% $23,715
27 San Jose State University 183 2% $29,193
28 American Public University System 182 2% $6,880
29 University of Southern California 164 1% $74,825
30 A T Still University of Health Sciences 163 40% N/A
31 Southern New Hampshire University 150 1% $51,538
32 Georgia State University 148 2% $26,014
33 Monroe College 148 6% $31,278
34 National University 148 3% $15,024
35 University of Kentucky 147 2% $30,101
36 West Chester University of Pennsylvania 137 3% $27,074
37 Purdue University Global-Davenport 137 2% $14,343
38 CUNY Graduate School and University Center 137 9% N/A
39 East Tennessee State University 136 4% $24,068
40 SUNY at Albany 132 3% $26,734
41 Saint Louis University 121 4% $61,018
42 University of Florida 118 1% $21,211
43 San Diego State University 116 1% $29,318
44 The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston 115 10% N/A
45 University of Missouri-Columbia 113 1% $26,766
46 University of Massachusetts-Lowell 112 3% $30,552
47 Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania 112 5% $25,147
48 Grand Canyon University 106 0% $32,100
49 University of Southern Mississippi 106 3% $24,048
50 Southern Connecticut State University 104 5% $26,810
51 Capella University 98 1% $15,011
52 SUNY Downstate Medical Center 98 24% N/A
53 Brown University 94 4% $73,802
54 Montclair State University 91 2% $31,704
55 University of Maryland-College Park 89 1% $27,146
56 Sam Houston State University 88 2% $22,478
57 Syracuse University 88 1% $70,636
58 Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis 88 1% $22,537
59 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 88 56% N/A
60 Touro University California 88 30% N/A
61 University of North Texas Health Science Center 87 18% N/A
62 Thomas Jefferson University 86 4% $59,762
63 Michigan State University 79 1% $28,862
64 University of Louisville 75 2% $27,980
65 The University of Texas at Austin 74 1% $26,506
66 University of California-Merced 73 5% $35,663
67 Drexel University 72 1% $70,223
68 American University 71 2% $66,268
69 Dartmouth College 70 4% $74,359
70 University of Arkansas 70 1% $25,500
71 University of Georgia 69 1% $26,688
72 Mercer University 68 3% $52,488
73 University of North Carolina at Charlotte 68 1% $23,694
74 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 68 1% $23,811
75 Nova Southeastern University 67 1% $50,597
76 University of Nebraska Medical Center 66 9% N/A
77 University of Iowa 66 1% $24,239
78 St Catherine University 65 4% $52,164
79 West Virginia University 65 1% $23,294
80 University of San Francisco 65 2% $68,296
81 University of Hawaii at Manoa 65 2% $29,858
82 Miami University-Oxford 63 1% $33,229
83 University of Utah 63 1% $24,472
84 East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania 61 4% $26,964
85 California Baptist University 59 2% $47,694
86 MCPHS University 59 4% $55,120
87 Wayne State University 58 1% $27,157
88 Florida International University 58 0% $23,506
89 Georgia Southern University 54 1% $23,014
90 Northern Illinois University 54 1% $29,117
91 The University of Alabama 49 1% $29,872
92 La Salle University 48 3% $47,110
93 University of Alaska Anchorage 48 2% $27,190
94 Texas A & M University-College Station 47 0% $29,506
95 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 47 0% $27,898
96 Grand Valley State University 47 1% $24,948
97 The University of West Florida 47 1% $19,014
98 Brigham Young University-Provo 46 1% $18,776
99 Columbia Southern University 46 1% $6,223
100 Everglades University 45 12% $19,600

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Public Health, General program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.