Health Professions at Georgetown University

If you plan to study health professions, take a look at what Georgetown University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Georgetown is located in Washington, District of Columbia and approximately 19,371 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 313 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.

Georgetown Health Professions Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Health Professions
• Doctorate Degree in Health Professions

Online Classes Are Available at Georgetown

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

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

• Master’s Degree

Georgetown Health Professions Rankings

There were 211 students who received their doctoral degrees in health professions, making the school the #135 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Health Professions Student Demographics at Georgetown

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

Georgetown Health Professions Master’s Program

Of the 313 students who graduated with a master’s in health professions from Georgetown in 2021, 12% were men and 88% were women.

Of the students who received a health professions master's degree from Georgetown, 63% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	32
Black or African American	32
Hispanic or Latino	21
White	197
International Students	15
Other Races/Ethnicities	16

Concentrations Within Health Professions

The following health professions concentations are available at Georgetown University. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Georgetown University. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Nursing	292
Medicine	181
Public Health	24
Medical Illustration & Informatics	9
Health & Medical Administrative Services	9
Medical Science	7
Other Health Professions	6
Allied Health Professions	1

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 DC, the home state for Georgetown University.

Occupation	Jobs in DC	Average Salary in DC
Managers	19,910	$147,460
Computer Workers	18,040	$117,540
Registered Nurses	11,110	$92,350
Home Health Aides	6,420	$29,290
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	5,060	$81,120

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 Lucas Cantor under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.