Health Professions at Emerson College

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

Emerson is located in Boston, Massachusetts and has a total student population of 5,115.

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.

Emerson Health Professions Degrees Available

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

Emerson Health Professions Rankings

The health professions major at Emerson 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 Emerson

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

Emerson Health Professions Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 22% of health professions bachelor's degrees went to men and 78% went to women. The typical health professions bachelor's degree program is made up of only 18% men. So male students are more repesented at Emerson since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

About 89% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in health professions at Emerson are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	8
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Emerson Health Professions Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 3% of health professions master's degrees went to men and 97% went to women.

Of the students who received a health professions master's degree from Emerson, 51% 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 Emerson College with a master's in health professions.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	26
Black or African American	19
Hispanic or Latino	84
White	159
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	17

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 Emerson College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Communication Sciences	162

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 MA, the home state for Emerson College.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Registered Nurses	80,630	$92,140
Personal Care Aides	76,850	$29,080
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	39,360	$64,560
Nursing Assistants	39,100	$33,630
Software Applications Developers	29,110	$109,130

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 McDonald & Gill under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.