Health Professions at Johns Hopkins University

Every health professions school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the health professions program at Johns Hopkins University stacks up to those at other schools.

Johns Hopkins is located in Baltimore, Maryland and approximately 28,890 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 1,125 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.

Johns Hopkins Health Professions Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at Johns Hopkins

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

Johns Hopkins Health Professions Rankings

There were 288 students who received their doctoral degrees in health professions, making the school the #100 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Health Professions Student Demographics at Johns Hopkins

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

Johns Hopkins Health Professions Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 1,125 health professions majors earned their master's degree from Johns Hopkins. Of these graduates, 23% were men and 77% were women.

In the health professions master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 37% of degree recipients. That is 1% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	169
Black or African American	127
Hispanic or Latino	80
White	510
International Students	175
Other Races/Ethnicities	64

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 Johns Hopkins University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Public Health	872
Nursing	445
Health & Medical Administrative Services	335
Medicine	119
Mental & Social Health Services	107
Health/Medical Prep Programs	25
Bioethics/Medical Ethics	17
Health Sciences & Services	6
Medical Illustration & Informatics	6
Other Health Professions	6

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 MD, the home state for Johns Hopkins University.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Registered Nurses	54,080	$76,820
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	38,670	$62,680
Nursing Assistants	27,980	$31,310
Personal Care Aides	19,580	$26,910
Managers	14,450	$122,050

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 Lester Spence under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.