The 50 colleges that score highest for Public health on public federal data: selectivity, graduate earnings, program size, academic strength and graduate depth. It is a starting point for your research, not a judgment of quality.
50 colleges · each name links to its page, with sources · data snapshot October 2, 2026 · Updated October 2, 2026
How we rank programs · showing the top 50 of 50 core colleges ranked, those with enough graduates and earnings data · All top-programs lists
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| Rank | College | State | What we measured | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johns Hopkins University | MD | Median earnings $79,113 · 150 graduates last year · 8% of the school's degrees | |
| 2 | University of Southern California | CA | Median earnings $89,522 · 116 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 3 | University of California-Berkeley | CA | Median earnings $76,572 · 186 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 4 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | NC | Median earnings $83,066 (field-wide) · 26 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 5 | Northwestern University | IL | Median earnings $89,363 (college-wide) · 54 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 6 | Cornell University | NY | Median earnings $104,043 (college-wide) · 28 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 7 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | MI | Median earnings $78,928 · 105 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 8 | University of Maryland-College Park | MD | Median earnings $72,328 · 391 graduates last year · 5% of the school's degrees | |
| 9 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | WA | Median earnings $63,666 · 308 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 10 | University of Florida | FL | Median earnings $68,605 · 187 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 11 | George Washington University | DC | Median earnings $87,217 · 112 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 12 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | NJ | Median earnings $74,633 · 351 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 13 | Duke University | NC | Median earnings $101,771 · 41 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 14 | Tufts University | MA | Median earnings $75,448 · 81 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 15 | University of California-San Diego | CA | Median earnings $66,110 · 345 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 16 | Brown University | RI | Median earnings $74,496 · 74 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 17 | New York University | NY | Median earnings $70,840 · 44 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 18 | University of California-Irvine | CA | Median earnings $60,430 · 378 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 19 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | IL | Median earnings $65,978 · 144 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 20 | University of Miami | FL | Median earnings $85,661 (field-wide) · 44 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 21 | Purdue University-Main Campus | IN | Median earnings $66,892 · 58 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 22 | Texas A&M University-College Station | TX | Median earnings $66,732 · 217 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 23 | University of Rochester | NY | Median earnings $90,038 (field-wide) · 14 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 24 | Ohio State University-Main Campus | OH | Median earnings $70,369 · 106 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 25 | The University of Texas at Austin | TX | Median earnings $61,390 · 325 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 26 | Georgetown University | DC | Median earnings $143,686 (field-wide) · 29 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 27 | University of South Florida | FL | Median earnings $53,560 · 146 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 28 | University at Buffalo | NY | Median earnings $85,050 (field-wide) · 140 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 29 | University of Georgia | GA | Median earnings $78,085 · 128 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 30 | Indiana University-Bloomington | IN | Median earnings $68,038 · 184 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 31 | Syracuse University | NY | Median earnings $69,776 · 49 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 32 | San Diego State University | CA | Median earnings $60,904 · 170 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 33 | University of Massachusetts-Amherst | MA | Median earnings $63,854 · 195 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 34 | Florida State University | FL | Median earnings $66,856 (field-wide) · 260 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 35 | University of Arizona | AZ | Median earnings $66,937 · 169 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 36 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | VA | Median earnings $81,698 (college-wide) · 105 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 37 | University of South Carolina-Columbia | SC | Median earnings $58,715 · 402 graduates last year · 6% of the school's degrees | |
| 38 | CUNY Graduate School and University Center | NY | Median earnings $111,289 (field-wide) · 101 graduates last year · 13% of the school's degrees | |
| 39 | University of Iowa | IA | Median earnings $74,961 (field-wide) · 69 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 40 | Lehigh University | PA | Median earnings $105,584 (college-wide) · 54 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 41 | University of Vermont | VT | Median earnings $73,996 (field-wide) · 46 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 42 | University of Missouri-Columbia | MO | Median earnings $73,603 (field-wide) · 23 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 43 | University of California-Santa Cruz | CA | Median earnings $68,396 (college-wide) · 20 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 44 | Oregon State University | OR | Median earnings $62,633 · 105 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 45 | University at Albany | NY | Median earnings $64,456 · 65 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 46 | University of Nevada-Reno | NV | Median earnings $87,949 (field-wide) · 266 graduates last year · 7% of the school's degrees | |
| 47 | American University | DC | Median earnings $70,831 · 66 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 48 | The University of Alabama | AL | Median earnings $51,588 · 154 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 49 | Drexel University | PA | Median earnings $72,736 · 13 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 50 | George Mason University | VA | Median earnings $65,358 · 157 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees |
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