Health Professions at SUNY Empire State College

If you are interested in studying health professions, you may want to check out the program at SUNY Empire State College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

SUNY Empire is located in Saratoga Springs, New York and has a total student population of 10,724. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 72 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.

SUNY Empire Health Professions Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Health Professions

Online Classes Are Available at SUNY Empire

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? SUNY Empire offers distance education options for health professions at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

SUNY Empire Health Professions Rankings

Health Professions Student Demographics at SUNY Empire

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the health professions majors at SUNY Empire State College.

SUNY Empire Health Professions Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 72 health professions majors earned their master's degree from SUNY Empire. Of these graduates, 6% were men and 94% were women.

Of the students who received a health professions master's degree from SUNY Empire, 63% were white. This is above 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 SUNY Empire State College with a master's in health professions.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	9
Hispanic or Latino	9
White	45
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Concentrations Within Health Professions

The following health professions concentations are available at SUNY Empire State College. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from SUNY Empire State College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Nursing	29
Bioethics/Medical Ethics	26
Health & Medical Administrative Services	23

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 NY, the home state for SUNY Empire State College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Personal Care Aides	199,060	$27,640
Home Health Aides	191,820	$26,240
Registered Nurses	182,490	$85,610
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	112,510	$70,770
Nursing Assistants	91,400	$37,010

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 DanielPenfield under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.