Health Professions at University of Rhode Island

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

URI is located in Kingston, Rhode Island and has a total student population of 17,649. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 90 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.

URI Health Professions Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at URI

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

• Master’s Degree

URI Health Professions Rankings

There were 150 students who received their doctoral degrees in health professions, making the school the #187 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Health Professions Student Demographics at URI

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

URI Health Professions Master’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 90 students earned a master's degree in health professions from URI. About 91% of these graduates were women and the other 9% were men.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	38
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	42

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 Rhode Island. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences	128
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services	37
Nursing	29
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	26
Communication Sciences	22
Public Health	2
Health & Medical Administrative Services	1

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 RI, the home state for University of Rhode Island.

Occupation	Jobs in RI	Average Salary in RI
Registered Nurses	12,630	$78,420
Nursing Assistants	10,200	$31,340
Personal Care Aides	5,860	$27,190
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	4,770	$62,480
Medical Assistants	2,390	$35,830

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 Tnricci under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.