Community Health and Preventive Medicine at Stanford University

If you plan to study community health and preventive medicine, take a look at what Stanford University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Stanford is located in Stanford, California and has a total student population of 15,953.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Community Health and Preventive Medicine section at the bottom of this page.

Stanford Community Health and Preventive Medicine Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Community Health and Preventive Medicine

Stanford Community Health and Preventive Medicine Rankings

Community Health and Preventive Medicine Student Demographics at Stanford

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the community health and preventive medicine majors at Stanford University.

Stanford Community Health and Preventive Medicine Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 26% of community health and preventive medicine master's degrees went to men and 74% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 17% men graduate in community health and preventive medicine each year. Stanford does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 8% more men than average.

In the community health and preventive medicine master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 52% 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 Stanford University with a master's in community health and preventive medicine.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	8
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• General Public Health

Careers That Community Health and Preventive Medicine Grads May Go Into

A degree in community health and preventive medicine can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for Stanford University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Medical and Health Services Managers	34,510	$125,770
Community Health Workers	6,160	$49,260

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 Pere Joan under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.