Health Professions at Lehman College

What traits are you looking for in a health professions school? To help you decide if Lehman College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's health professions program.

Lehman is located in Bronx, New York and has a total student population of 15,091. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 170 students received their master's degree in health professions.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Health Professions section at the bottom of this page.

Lehman Health Professions Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Health Professions

Online Classes Are Available at Lehman

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Lehman offers distance education options for health professions at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

Lehman Health Professions Rankings

There were 0 student who received their doctoral degrees in health professions, making the school the #668 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Health Professions Student Demographics at Lehman

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the health professions majors at Lehman College.

Lehman Health Professions Master’s Program

Of the 170 students who earned a master's degree in Health Professions from Lehman in 2020-2021, 16% were men and 84% were women.

In the health professions master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 77% of degree recipients. That is 42% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Lehman College with a master's in health professions.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	21
Black or African American	65
Hispanic or Latino	45
White	36
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Concentrations Within Health Professions

If you plan to be a health professions major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Lehman College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Nursing	119
Communication Sciences	38
Public Health	29

Careers That Health Professions Grads May Go Into

A degree in health professions can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for Lehman College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Personal Care Aides	199,060	$27,640
Home Health Aides	191,820	$26,240
Registered Nurses	182,490	$85,610
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	112,510	$70,770
Nursing Assistants	91,400	$37,010

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Jim.henderson under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.