2025 Best General Health & Wellness Associate Degree Schools in California
2Colleges in California
81Associate Degrees
If you plan on getting your associate degree in general health & wellness, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #138 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Health & Wellness Associate Degree Schools in California ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 81 associate degrees in general health & wellness during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general health & wellness students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of general health & wellness students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general health & wellness related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general health & wellness students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank General Health & Wellness Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Health & Wellness Associate Degree Schools in California list to help you make the college decision.
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The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).