San Diego, CA (population: 1,309,749) has one public health school within its city limits. San Diego State University has a total student population of 32,817. It is the 706th highest ranked school in the USA and the 44th highest in the state of California (#1 is University of California-Los Angeles). To learn more about public health programs in San Diego, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of public health professors at San Diego State University such as Lori Bednarchik, Zohir Chowdhury, Karen Coleman, Jason Daniel, Araceli Fernandez-Cerdeno, and Tracey Finlayson.
Public Health students from San Diego schools who go on to become public health educators, public health officials, social workers, public health workers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 63,320 people working as health educators alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $49,060. Also, Health specialties teachers make on average $103,340 per year and there are about 133,070 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos area alone, there are 950 employed health specialties teachers earning an average salary of $76,000. Health educators in this area earn $39,310/yr and there are 1,130 employed.
San Diego lies in San Diego county, which is one of the 57 counties in California. Overall, the San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos area has 1,279,330 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $23/hr average worker wage, and a $48,860 average annual salary. Thus, about 1 out of every 1000 jobs in San Diego are held by health educators, and 1/1000 are held by health specialties teachers.
After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, San Diego State University ends up costing a student $7,762/yr.
Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from San Diego |
Chula Vista | CA | 226,606 | 2 | 21.0599 | 146 | 13.7 miles |
Encinitas | CA | 61,488 | 0 | - | 0 | 18.0 miles |
San Marcos | CA | 82,614 | 4 | 36.7693 | 363 | 22.9 miles |
Carlsbad | CA | 99,613 | 3 | 21.734 | 46 | 23.1 miles |
Escondido | CA | 139,583 | 1 | 0.0163751 | 0 | 23.2 miles |
Temecula | CA | 104,516 | 3 | 32.0583 | 15 | 47.7 miles |
Laguna Niguel | CA | 65,471 | 0 | - | 0 | 59.4 miles |
Lake Elsinore | CA | 56,703 | 0 | - | 0 | 60.4 miles |
Aliso Viejo | CA | 42,862 | 1 | 75.2668 | 4 | 62.7 miles |
Mission Viejo | CA | 95,388 | 1 | 19.6994 | 137 | 62.7 miles |
Laguna Beach | CA | - | 1 | 20.4608 | 2 | 62.9 miles |
Newport Beach | CA | 80,777 | 1 | 0.80626 | 0 | 69.6 miles |
Costa Mesa | CA | 113,091 | 7 | 22.8122 | 265 | 74.3 miles |
Tustin | CA | 74,313 | 0 | - | 0 | 74.5 miles |
Palm Desert | CA | 52,240 | 2 | 19.2411 | 98 | 77.3 miles |
Fountain Valley | CA | 56,133 | 3 | 26.6774 | 70 | 77.9 miles |
Riverside | CA | 302,653 | 8 | 32.5108 | 359 | 79.6 miles |
Cathedral City | CA | 53,114 | 0 | - | 0 | 80.8 miles |
Garden Grove | CA | 167,800 | 4 | 26.4852 | 22 | 82.2 miles |
Anaheim | CA | 342,336 | 9 | 24.4064 | 97 | 82.8 miles |
Coachella | CA | 42,148 | 1 | 32.7647 | 6 | 83.1 miles |
Yorba Linda | CA | 67,194 | 0 | - | 0 | 83.1 miles |
Fullerton | CA | 133,165 | 6 | 21.8966 | 252 | 87.0 miles |
Cypress | CA | 47,588 | 2 | 8.65396 | 110 | 87.1 miles |
Chino Hills | CA | 74,322 | 0 | - | 0 | 87.6 miles |
Chino | CA | 84,585 | 0 | - | 0 | 88.9 miles |
Long Beach | CA | 464,505 | 6 | 26.5161 | 271 | 89.8 miles |
Ontario | CA | 174,731 | 7 | 23.7233 | 124 | 90.0 miles |
Cerritos | CA | 51,327 | 3 | 18.7768 | 18 | 90.9 miles |
Diamond Bar | CA | 57,662 | 0 | - | 0 | 91.0 miles |