Health Professions at Luther College

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

Luther is located in Decorah, Iowa and has a total student population of 1,802. Of the 460 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Luther College in 2021, 49 of them were health professions majors.

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.

Luther Health Professions Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Health Professions

Luther Health Professions Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the health professions progam at Luther compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The health professions major at Luther 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools	287
Best Value Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools	1,057
Most Popular Health Professions Schools	2,748
Most Focused Health Professions Schools	2,937

Health Professions Student Demographics at Luther

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

Luther Health Professions Bachelor’s Program

Of the 49 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Health Professions from Luther in 2020-2021, 24% were men and 76% were women. The typical health professions bachelor's degree program is made up of only 18% men. So male students are more repesented at Luther since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

About 84% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in health professions at Luther 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 Luther College with a bachelor's in health professions.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	41
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Luther also has a doctoral program available in health professions. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Concentrations Within Health Professions

If you plan to be a health professions major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Luther College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Nursing	39
Health Sciences & Services	9
Allied Health Professions	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 IA, the home state for Luther College.

Occupation	Jobs in IA	Average Salary in IA
Registered Nurses	33,770	$59,130
Nursing Assistants	20,890	$29,120
Personal Care Aides	18,520	$25,050
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	11,970	$56,970
Software Applications Developers	6,990	$88,570

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 Prizm under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.