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. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 61 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.

Kean Health Professions Degrees Available

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

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

Of the 61 health professions students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from Kean, about 11% were men and 89% were women.

Of the students who received a health professions master's degree from Kean, 51% were white. This is below average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the health professions master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 38% of degree recipients. That is 2% better than the national average.*

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	1
Black or African American	10
Hispanic or Latino	11
White	31
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	8

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

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.