Health Professions at Temple University

What traits are you looking for in a health professions school? To help you decide if Temple University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's health professions program.

Temple is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and approximately 37,236 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 309 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.

Temple Health Professions Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at Temple

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Temple offers distance education options for health professions at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

Temple Health Professions Rankings

There were 709 students who received their doctoral degrees in health professions, making the school the #9 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Health Professions Student Demographics at Temple

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the health professions majors at Temple University.

Temple Health Professions Master’s Program

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

Of the students who received a health professions master's degree from Temple, 54% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	27
Black or African American	20
Hispanic or Latino	18
White	166
International Students	13
Other Races/Ethnicities	65

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 Temple University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Medicine	313
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences	216
Dentistry	153
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	144
Allied Health Professions	50
Public Health	35
Bioethics/Medical Ethics	28
Advanced Dentistry & Oral Sciences	27
Medical Illustration & Informatics	23
Communication Sciences	23
Nursing	19
Health & Medical Administrative Services	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 PA, the home state for Temple University.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Registered Nurses	148,520	$70,390
Personal Care Aides	121,300	$24,880
Nursing Assistants	76,260	$30,630
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	68,240	$60,800
Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses	38,370	$48,120

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 Audrey under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.