If you’re looking to take a Public Health major from a North Carolina university, you’ll have a lot of options. North Carolina has specific public health problems that its education system has responded to by developing comprehensive public health degree programs. Some of these problems include diabetes, obesity, chronic lung disease, cancer, heart disease, stroke, and Alzheimer’s disease.
After earning your public health degree from a North Carolina school, some of the improvements to public health that you can work toward are expanding access to care, lowering infant mortality rates, adolescent health, violence prevention, obesity prevention, and tobacco use prevention.
To create our ranking of The 5 Best Public Health Degree Programs in North Carolina, we examined all of the public health majors and programs in the state and then chose the best options available using data such as:
- – Freshman Retention rates
- – Graduation rates
- – Residential cost of attendance
- – Student opinion based on Niche grades
Detailed methodology is included in the ranking; you can visit the page to learn more about how we score the institutions. Data for this ranking was collected from sources such as the individual school websites, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), CollegeData website, and the Niche website. You can also find links to the schools on the ranking page so that if there’s any program that piques your interest, you are easily able to visit their page and request more information.
Three of the top five schools that made our list include undergraduate programs with a Public Health major. These are:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
UNC Chapel Hill has some of the highest rankings for its public health programs and the most extensive selection of both on-campus and online offerings in the state.
Elon University
Elon offers a Bachelor’s in Public Health major and a minor. Elon offers students full-time, real-world public health experiences through three-week full-time work sessions at leading public health organizations.
Appalachian State University
Appalachian State offers a BS in Public Health and an online Master’s in Nutrition with a Public Health concentration. It also prepares students to earn a variety of certifications and credentials.
To see the rest of the Public Health options in the state, and learn much more about schools which offer a public health major in North Carolina, visit our ranking. You’ll easily be able to follow up with the schools you’re interested in and request more information from them directly.
The best public health major for you will be different than it would for another person. Questions you may want to ask yourself include:
- –“What are my public health career goals?”
- –“How much time can I commit to earning a public health major?”
- –“What format would I like to earn my public health degree?” Online, on-campus, or hybrid format
- –“What is my price range for a public health degree?”
- –“Where do I want to live and work while I study public health and after I complete my degree?”
With these thoughts in mind, check out our North Carolina ranking. Once you know what you want from your Public Health program, you’ll be able to find a program that suits your needs. Then you can request more information from the school that provides it and begin the application process.
