Health Professions at Kean University
What traits are you looking for in a health professions school? To help you decide if Kean University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's health professions program.Kean is located in Union, New Jersey and approximately 14,064 students attend the school each year.
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.
Kean Health Professions Degrees Available
- Bachelor’s Degree in Health Professions
- Master’s Degree in Health Professions
Online Classes Are Available at Kean
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? Kean offers distance education options for health professions at the following degree levels:
- Bachelor’s Degree
Kean Health Professions Rankings
There were 32 students who received their doctoral degrees in health professions, making the school the #412 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.
Health Professions Student Demographics at Kean
Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the health professions majors at Kean University.
Kean Health Professions Master’s Program
The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Kean University with a master's in health professions.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
---|---|
Asian | 3 |
Black or African American | 8 |
Hispanic or Latino | 16 |
White | 27 |
International Students | 1 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 17 |
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 Kean University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.
Concentration | Annual Degrees Awarded |
---|---|
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 56 |
Mental & Social Health Services | 20 |
Nursing | 13 |
Communication Sciences | 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 NJ, the home state for Kean University.
Occupation | Jobs in NJ | Average Salary in NJ |
---|---|---|
Registered Nurses | 79,530 | $82,750 |
Nursing Assistants | 56,500 | $30,380 |
Software Applications Developers | 46,930 | $107,640 |
Home Health Aides | 41,040 | $24,450 |
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors | 40,100 | $62,910 |
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 Daniel Collins under License
More about our data sources and methodologies.