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Best Value Public Health Doctor's Degree Schools in Texas

2023 Best Value Public Health Doctor's Degree Schools in Texas

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

4 Colleges
$10,727 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$76,078 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Public Health Doctor's Degree School for You

Public Health is the #29 most popular major in Texas with 2,111 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Public Health Doctor's Degree Schools in Texas to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Texas to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for public health students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Best Texas Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Public Health

Our analysis found The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston to be the best value school for public health students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in Texas. Located in the large city of Houston, UTHealth is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UTHealth are $10,409 per year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - College Station. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Public Health Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas list. Texas A&M College Station is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of College Station.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Texas A&M College Station are $10,733 per year.

Texas A&M College Station also took the #4 spot in our Best Public Health Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas rankings.

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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at The University of Texas at Austin helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value public health schools in Texas. Located in the city of Austin, UT Austin is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UT Austin are $12,050 a year.

UT Austin did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Public Health Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas list.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of North Texas Health Science Center. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Public Health Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas list. Located in the large city of Fort Worth, UNT Health Science Center is a public school with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNT Health Science Center are $11,039 per year.

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Best Value Public Health Colleges in the Southwest Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 1,067
Oklahoma 312
New Mexico 159

One of 30 majors within the area of study, public health has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Public Health

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274
Allied Health Professions 82,308

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 schools only.

  • 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.

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