Dental Hygiene/Hygienist at Lake Washington Institute of Technology

50% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

If you plan to study dental hygiene/hygienist, take a look at what Lake Washington Institute of Technology has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

LWTech is located in Kirkland, Washington and approximately 3,319 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Dental Hygiene/Hygienist section at the bottom of this page.

LWTech Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Degrees Available

Bachelor’s Degree in Dental Hygiene

LWTech Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Rankings

The dental hygiene major at LWTech is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Dental Hygiene/Hygienist. 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.

Dental Hygiene Student Demographics at LWTech

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the dental hygiene majors at Lake Washington Institute of Technology.

LWTech Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor’s Program

90% Women

50% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 10% of dental hygiene bachelor's degrees went to men and 90% went to women. The typical dental hygiene bachelor's degree program is made up of only 6% men. So male students are more repesented at LWTech since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 13% more racial-ethnic minorities in its dental hygiene bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Lake Washington Institute of Technology with a bachelor's in dental hygiene.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	14
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Dental Assisting/Assistant

Careers That Dental Hygiene Grads May Go Into

A degree in dental hygiene can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for WA, the home state for Lake Washington Institute of Technology.

Occupation	Jobs in WA	Average Salary in WA
Dental Hygienists	6,010	$90,690
Health Specialties Professors	3,470	$155,090

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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