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Largest public health programs in the United States
U.S. public health programs, ranked by awards conferred in 2024, the latest IPEDS completions year on file. At least 5 schools must offer the program for this list to exist.
| Rank | School | City | Sector | Awards conferred |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 681 |
| 2 | Rutgers University | New Brunswick | Public, 4-year | 649 |
| 3 | Brigham Young University-Idaho | Rexburg | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 646 |
| 4 | Columbia University in the City of New York | New York | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 616 |
| 5 | University of Maryland-College Park | College Park | Public, 4-year | 530 |
| 6 | University of Washington | Seattle | Public, 4-year | 502 |
| 7 | University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley | Public, 4-year | 500 |
| 8 | University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham | Public, 4-year | 470 |
| 9 | University of South Carolina-Columbia | Columbia | Public, 4-year | 461 |
| 10 | University of South Florida | Tampa | Public, 4-year | 457 |
| 11 | University of California-Irvine | Irvine | Public, 4-year | 442 |
| 12 | Harvard University | Cambridge | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 422 |
| 13 | University of Florida | Gainesville | Public, 4-year | 412 |
| 14 | University of Southern California | Los Angeles | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 408 |
| 15 | Southern New Hampshire University | Manchester | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 398 |
| 16 | University of California-San Diego | La Jolla | Public, 4-year | 384 |
| 17 | California State University-Fullerton | Fullerton | Public, 4-year | 372 |
| 18 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison | Public, 4-year | 360 |
| 19 | The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | Houston | Public, 4-year | 358 |
| 20 | University of Arizona | Tucson | Public, 4-year | 353 |
| 21 | East Carolina University | Greenville | Public, 4-year | 346 |
| 22 | Texas A&M University-College Station | College Station | Public, 4-year | 339 |
| 23 | The University of Texas at Austin | Austin | Public, 4-year | 334 |
| 24 | University of Nevada-Reno | Reno | Public, 4-year | 323 |
| 25 | Walden University | Minneapolis | For-profit, 4-year | 297 |
Completions counts total awards conferred, summed across every credential level, from IPEDS.
How to read this. A larger school naturally confers more awards in a common program; this counts total completions, not selectivity. A campus that is part of one multi-campus system is shown as a single row when more than two of its campuses would otherwise appear.
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