2025 Best Public Health Bachelor's Degree Schools in District of Columbia

Public Health is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #28 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Public Health Bachelor's Degree Schools in District of Columbia ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 234 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. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good 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 host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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 colleges for public health students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Public Health Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Public Health Bachelor's Degree Schools in District of Columbia ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Public Health in District of Columbia

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in public health.

Top District of Columbia Schools for a Bachelor's in Public Health

1

George Washington University
Washington, DC

129 Annual Graduates

$44,809 Median Starting Salary

George Washington University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in public health. Located in the city of Washington, GWU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.

After graduation, public health bachelor's recipients generally make about $44,809 in the first five years of their career.

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

2

Georgetown University
Washington, DC

34 Annual Graduates

$50,415 Median Starting Salary

Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in public health needs to check out Georgetown University. Georgetown is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Washington.

Those public health students who get their bachelor's degree from Georgetown University receive $4,609 more than the typical public health grad.

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

3

American University
Washington, DC

65 Annual Graduates

$42,194 Median Starting Salary

$76,665 Median Student Debt

American University is a wonderful decision for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in public health. Located in the large city of Washington, The American University is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the public health program earn about $42,194 in their early career salary.

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

Best Public Health Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Public Health Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	275	1,139
Pennsylvania	274	608
Maryland	207	628
New Jersey	193	615
Delaware	130	175

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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
Other Public Health	129
General Public Health	55
International Public Health/International Health	34
Public Health Education and Promotion	12
Health Services Administration	4

Majors Similar to Public Health

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Nursing	459
Health Sciences & Services	85
Health & Medical Administrative Services	82
Allied Health Professions	25
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science	23
Communication Sciences	10
Bioethics/Medical Ethics	7
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services	3

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.