2025 Best Public Health Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region

If you pursue a bachelor's degree in public health, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #28 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

College Factual looked at 12 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Public Health Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 899 bachelor's degrees in public health during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Public Health School for Your Bachelor's Degree

The public health bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality public health program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to public health students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of public health students who choose to seek a bachelor'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.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for public health to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized public health related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for public health students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Public Health Schools

The public health school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Public Health Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Public Health in the New England Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in public health.

10 Top New England Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Public Health

1

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA

266 Annual Graduates

$37,364 Median Starting Salary

$22,487 Median Student Debt

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in public health needs to check out University of Massachusetts Amherst. UMass Amherst is a fairly large public university located in the city of Amherst.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the public health program earn about $37,364 in their early career salary.

More information about a bachelor’s in public health from University of Massachusetts Amherst

2

Tufts University
Medford, MA

77 Annual Graduates

$53,372 Median Starting Salary

It's difficult to beat Tufts University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in public health. Located in the large suburb of Medford, Tufts is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.

Bachelor's recipients from the public health program at Tufts University get $8,820 more than the average college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

More information about a bachelor’s in public health from Tufts University

3

Fairfield University
Fairfield, CT

13 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Fairfield University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in public health. Located in the large suburb of Fairfield, Fairfield U is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a bachelor’s in public health from Fairfield University

4

University of Vermont
Burlington, VT

38 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat University of Vermont if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in public health. Located in the small city of Burlington, UVM is a public university with a large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in public health from University of Vermont

5

Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT

23 Annual Graduates

$35,797 Median Starting Salary

$20,309 Median Student Debt

Located in the midsize city of New Haven, SCSU is a public university with a medium-sized student population.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the public health program report average early career income of $35,797.

More information about a bachelor’s in public health from Southern Connecticut State University

6

University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Lowell, MA

66 Annual Graduates

$43,046 Median Starting Salary

UMass Lowell is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Lowell.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the public health program earn about $43,046 in the first couple years of their career.

More information about a bachelor’s in public health from University of Massachusetts - Lowell

7

Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, NH

193 Annual Graduates

$45,910 Median Starting Salary

SNHU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized suburb of Manchester.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the public health program report average early career income of $45,910.

More information about a bachelor’s in public health from Southern New Hampshire University

8

Curry College
Milton, MA

32 Annual Graduates

Curry is a small private not-for-profit college located in the large suburb of Milton.More information about a bachelor’s in public health from Curry College

9

University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth
North Dartmouth, MA

34 Annual Graduates

Located in the suburb of North Dartmouth, UMass Dartmouth is a public university with a medium-sized student population.More information about a bachelor’s in public health from University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth

10

American International College
Springfield, MA

14 Annual Graduates

AIC is a small private not-for-profit college located in the city of Springfield.More information about a bachelor’s in public health from American International College

Best Public Health Colleges by State

Explore the best public health colleges for a specific state in the New England Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	238	559
Connecticut	183	88
New Hampshire	157	183
Rhode Island	157	82
Maine	156	18
Vermont	155	21

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Rankings in Majors Related to Public Health

One of 34 majors within the Health Professions area of study, Public Health has other similar majors worth exploring.

Public Health Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Public Health	736
Community Health and Preventive Medicine	78
Behavioral Aspects of Health	72
Public Health Education and Promotion	8
Health Services Administration	4
International Public Health/International Health	1

Most Popular Majors Related to Public Health

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Nursing	7,946
Health & Medical Administrative Services	1,671
Health Sciences & Services	1,619
Allied Health Professions	553
Communication Sciences	545
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	432
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences	414
Other Health Professions	362
Mental & Social Health Services	253
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services	203

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Article 25 Flickr. More about our data sources and methodologies.