2025 Best Community Health and Preventive Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools
2Colleges in the United States
25Doctor's Degrees
Community Health and Preventive Medicine is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #325 most popular doctor's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of community health and preventive medicine. Combined, these schools handed out 25 doctor's degrees in community health and preventive medicine to qualified students.
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Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on community health and preventive medicine students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of community health and preventive medicine students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized community health and preventive medicine related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for community health and preventive medicine students working on their doctor's degree.
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 Community Health and Preventive Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools 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).