Health Professions at East Central University

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

ECU is located in Ada, Oklahoma and approximately 3,608 students attend the school each year.

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.

ECU Health Professions Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Health Professions

Online Classes Are Available at ECU

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.

ECU does offer online education options in health professions for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

• Bachelor’s Degree

ECU Health Professions Rankings

The health professions major at ECU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Health Professions. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Health Professions Student Demographics at ECU

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

ECU Health Professions Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 16% of health professions bachelor's degrees went to men and 84% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 8% more racial-ethnic minorities in its health professions bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	25
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	37
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	20

Concentrations Within Health Professions

Health Professions majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at East Central University. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Nursing	67
Public Health	11

Related Majors

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 OK, the home state for East Central University.

Occupation	Jobs in OK	Average Salary in OK
Registered Nurses	29,330	$63,080
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	21,570	$53,880
Nursing Assistants	17,120	$25,690
Personal Care Aides	13,820	$20,270
Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses	11,740	$41,260

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 Brad Holt under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.