Health Professions at Goodwin College

If you are interested in studying health professions, you may want to check out the program at Goodwin College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Goodwin is located in East Hartford, Connecticut and has a total student population of 3,312.

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.

Goodwin Health Professions Degrees Available

• Basic Certificate in Health Professions (Less Than 1 Year)
• Undergrad Certificate in Health Professions (1 - 4 Years)
• Associate’s Degree in Health Professions
• Bachelor’s Degree in Health Professions
• Master’s Degree in Health Professions

Online Classes Are Available at Goodwin

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? Goodwin offers distance education options for health professions at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

Goodwin Health Professions Rankings

Health Professions Student Demographics at Goodwin

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

Goodwin Health Professions Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 24% of health professions master's degrees went to men and 76% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 18% men graduate in health professions each year. Goodwin does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 6% more men than average.

Of the students who received a health professions master's degree from Goodwin, 60% 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 Goodwin College with a master's in health professions.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	15
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Concentrations Within Health Professions

Health Professions majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Goodwin College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Nursing	12
Public Health	9

Related Majors

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 CT, the home state for Goodwin College.

Occupation	Jobs in CT	Average Salary in CT
Registered Nurses	31,400	$81,220
Personal Care Aides	26,360	$27,300
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	25,510	$66,800
Nursing Assistants	22,150	$33,390
Software Applications Developers	11,540	$105,500

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.