Health Professions at University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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

UNC Greensboro is located in Greensboro, North Carolina and has a total student population of 19,764. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 95 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.

UNC Greensboro Health Professions Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at UNC Greensboro

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? UNC Greensboro offers distance education options for health professions at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

UNC Greensboro Health Professions Rankings

There were 92 students who received their doctoral degrees in health professions, making the school the #254 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Health Professions Student Demographics at UNC Greensboro

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

UNC Greensboro Health Professions Master’s Program

The health professions program at UNC Greensboro awarded 95 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 12% of these degrees went to men with the other 88% going to women.

Of the students who received a health professions master's degree from UNC Greensboro, 66% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	19
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	63
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Concentrations Within Health Professions

Health Professions majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Nursing	124
Public Health	37
Communication Sciences	29
Allied Health Professions	7
Health & Medical Administrative Services	2

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 NC, the home state for University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Registered Nurses	102,500	$64,850
Nursing Assistants	63,010	$25,570
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	41,320	$55,560
Software Applications Developers	30,580	$103,280
Personal Care Aides	30,170	$21,660

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 Willthacheerleader18 under License

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