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Daly City, California has 5 accredited schools offering public health programs, with tuition ranging from $16,347 to $50,547 per year for indexed programs. Daly City has a population of about 102,560. Median household income is $119,570 (Census ACS 2023, 5-year). About 38.0% of adults 25+ hold a bachelor’s degree or higher. In the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area, the top-earning public health-related role is Medical and Health Services Manager at a median $166,310 annually (BLS OEWS, May 2025).
The accredited institutions listed below are the closest in our directory that offer public health programs near Daly City, ranked by BOC Score and straight-line distance from Daly City city center. The list is rebuilt from federal IPEDS data on every site update.
Every school list on this site is ordered by the BOC Score, computed from the most recent school-level data published by the U.S. Department of Education (College Scorecard and IPEDS). To qualify, a school must be currently operating and accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Each eligible school is then scored on five measures, percentile-ranked against schools at the same credential level:
Schools without enough outcome data appear after ranked schools, without a score. On this page, schools are ordered by distance from Daly City. Advertising never affects these rankings. Read the full methodology.
Source:Accreditor: National Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and SciencesIPEDSCollege Scorecard
Source: IPEDS / College Scorecard (2023 cohort). Browse all California schools on the California public health page.
Daly City is part of the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area (BLS area code 41860). Where MSA-level wages are published, the table below shows MSA medians; otherwise it falls back to California statewide.
| Occupation | Median Wage | Source | COL-Adjusted (US=100) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epidemiologist | $130,400 | San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA | $112,803 |
| Health Education Specialist | $99,260 | San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA | $85,865 |
| Medical and Health Services Manager | $166,310 | San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA | $143,867 |
| Community Health Worker | $72,710 | San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA | $62,898 |
Source: BLS, May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes wage data at the metro (MSA) and state level – not by individual city.
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 102,560 | Census ACS 2023 5-yr (B01003) |
| Median household income | $119,570 | Census ACS 2023 5-yr (B19013) |
| Adults 25+ with bachelor’s+ | 38.0% | Census ACS 2023 5-yr (B15003) |
| Regional Price Parity (US=100) | 115.6 (above U.S. average) | BEA RPP 2024 |
Our directory has 5 accredited schools offering public health programs near Daly City. The closest is San Francisco State University in San Francisco, CA (2.5 miles), and the farthest of the schools shown is University of California-Berkeley (17.3 miles). 4 of the highlighted schools are flagged as offering distance education.
Based on BLS OEWS May 2025 wage data, the top-paying public health-related roles near Daly City are: Medical and Health Services Manager ($166,310), Epidemiologist ($130,400), Health Education Specialist ($99,260). These reflect MSA-level medians where published, with California statewide fallback for occupations not reported at the metro level.
South San Francisco, CA is 3.5 miles from Daly City and has its own set of local public health programs – see the city’s page. For online programs, distance matters less; for hybrid or in-person formats, comparing both can help.
Daly City’s median household income of $119,570 (Census ACS 2023) is one input. Online programs let students stay in Daly City while attending lower-cost out-of-state schools, and California public universities often offer reduced in-state online tuition.
Confirm institutional accreditation via the U.S. Department of Education database (U.S. Dept. of Education database), and check for any program-specific accreditation listed by the school.
Compare every accredited online degree program with city-level data for Daly City:
Data verified: July 30, 2026. Salary, employment, and tuition figures on this page are sourced from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (OEWS May 2025; Employment Projections 2024–2034) and the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard (2023 cohort). The source agency and data year are cited inline with every statistic.
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