Allied Health Professions at Northern Arizona University

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

NAU is located in Flagstaff, Arizona and has a total student population of 29,566.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Allied Health Professions section at the bottom of this page.

NAU Allied Health Professions Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Allied Health

NAU Allied Health Professions Rankings

Allied Health Student Demographics at NAU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the allied health majors at Northern Arizona University.

NAU Allied Health Professions Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 23% of allied health master's degrees went to men and 77% went to women.

Of the students who received a allied health master's degree from NAU, 55% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level. In the allied health master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 45% of degree recipients. That is 8% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	7
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	26
White	48
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Concentrations Within Allied Health Professions

If you plan to be a allied health 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 Northern Arizona University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Physician Assistant	51
Athletic Training	15

Related Majors

• Public Health
• Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services
• Nursing
• Communication Sciences
• Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions

Careers That Allied Health Grads May Go Into

A degree in allied health can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for AZ, the home state for Northern Arizona University.

Occupation	Jobs in AZ	Average Salary in AZ
Health Specialties Professors	3,660	$133,640
Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics	3,620	$38,260
Health Technologists and Technicians	2,660	$48,840
Respiratory Therapists	2,560	$58,420
Surgical Technologists	2,300	$50,680

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 Teksaz227 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.