2025 Best Public Health Bachelor's Degree Schools in Minnesota

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 5 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Public Health Bachelor's Degree Schools in Minnesota ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 215 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 collection 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

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 Public Health Bachelor's Degree Schools in Minnesota list to help you make the college decision.

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 Minnesota

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

Top Minnesota Schools for a Bachelor's in Public Health

1

St Catherine University
Saint Paul, MN

49 Annual Graduates

$42,407 Median Starting Salary

Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in public health needs to look into St Catherine University. St. Kate's is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Saint Paul.

Bachelor's recipients from the public health degree program at St Catherine University get $2,950 more than the average college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

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

2

University of Minnesota - Duluth
Duluth, MN

29 Annual Graduates

$36,520 Median Starting Salary

University of Minnesota - Duluth is a wonderful choice for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in public health. Located in the small city of Duluth, UMN Duluth is a public university with a medium-sized student population.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the public health program make around $36,520 in their early career salary.

More information about a bachelor’s in public health from University of Minnesota - Duluth

3

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
Winona, MN

11 Annual Graduates

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in public health. SMU MN is a small private not-for-profit university located in the distant town of Winona.More information about a bachelor’s in public health from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota

4

Winona State University
Winona, MN

20 Annual Graduates

$46,250 Median Starting Salary

Winona State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in public health. Located in the town of Winona, Winona State is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.

Those public health students who get their bachelor's degree from Winona State University receive $6,793 more than the average public health graduate.

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

5

Saint Cloud State University
Saint Cloud, MN

15 Annual Graduates

$32,830 Median Starting Salary

Located in the city of Saint Cloud, St. Cloud State University is a public university with a large student population.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the public health program report average early career income of $32,830.

More information about a bachelor’s in public health from Saint Cloud State University

Best Public Health Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	228	164
Iowa	197	117
Kansas	184	44
Nebraska	180	51
North Dakota	149	17
South Dakota	148	18

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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	110
Public Health Education and Promotion	76
Community Health and Preventive Medicine	29

Most Popular Majors Related to Public Health

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Nursing	8,551
Health & Medical Administrative Services	582
Health Sciences & Services	251
Communication Sciences	179
Dental Support Services	133
Allied Health Professions	102
Mental & Social Health Services	98
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science	59
Health/Medical Prep Programs	15
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	15

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.