Community Health and Preventive Medicine at Hofstra University

58% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

Every community health and preventive medicine school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the community health and preventive medicine program at Hofstra University stacks up to those at other schools.

Hofstra is located in Hempstead, New York and approximately 10,444 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Community Health and Preventive Medicine section at the bottom of this page.

Hofstra Community Health and Preventive Medicine Degrees Available

Bachelor’s Degree in Community Health and Preventive Medicine

Hofstra Community Health and Preventive Medicine Rankings

The community health and preventive medicine major at Hofstra is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Community Health and Preventive Medicine. 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.

Community Health and Preventive Medicine Student Demographics at Hofstra

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the community health and preventive medicine majors at Hofstra University.

Hofstra Community Health and Preventive Medicine Bachelor’s Program

79% Women

58% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 21% of community health and preventive medicine bachelor's degrees went to men and 79% went to women. The typical community health and preventive medicine bachelor's degree program is made up of only 17% men. So male students are more repesented at Hofstra since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 7% more racial-ethnic minorities in its community health and preventive medicine bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Hofstra University with a bachelor's in community health and preventive medicine.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	12
Hispanic or Latino	13
White	23
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Careers That Community Health and Preventive Medicine Grads May Go Into

A degree in community health and preventive medicine can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for Hofstra University.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Medical and Health Services Managers	25,830	$143,030
Community Health Workers	6,590	$44,340

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
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