2025 Best General Public Health Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
2Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
37Doctor's Degrees
Ranked #48 in popularity, general public health is one of the most sought-after doctor's degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Public Health Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 37 doctor's degrees in general public health 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 much a school focuses on general public health students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general public health students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
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 public health related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general public health students working on their doctor's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best General Public Health Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
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