Sentara College of Health Sciences Overview

Sentara College of Health Sciences is a private not-for-profit institution situated in Chesapeake, Virginia. Chesapeake is considered a suburb and offers tranquility and safety near the excitement of a city center.

What Is Sentara College of Health Sciences Known For?

• Students who want to work more closely with their professors have an easier time at Sentara College of Health Sciences since the student to facuty ratio is 8 to 1.
• The student loan default rate at Sentara College of Health Sciences is 1%, which is significantly lower than the national rate of 10.1%. That's great news for students who are worrying about paying off their student loans.
• The master's degree is the highest award offered at Sentara College of Health Sciences.
• For the <nil> academic year, 100% of the faculty were full-time.
• After graduation, Sentara College of Health Sciences bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $65,542 a year. That's about 61% more than their peers at other schools.

Where Is Sentara College of Health Sciences?

Contact details for Sentara College of Health Sciences are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	1441 Crossways Blvd, Suite 105, Chesapeake, VA 23320
Phone:	757-388-2900
Website:	www.sentara.edu

How Do I Get Into Sentara College of Health Sciences?

You can apply to Sentara College of Health Sciences online at: https://www.sentara.edu/admissions-aid/apply-now

Can I Afford Sentara College of Health Sciences?

The student loan default rate at Sentara College of Health Sciences is 0.7%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

Sentara College of Health Sciences Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 260 undergraduate students at Sentara College of Health Sciences, with 231 being full-time and 29 being part-time.

There are also 52 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 231 full-time undergraduates at Sentara College of Health Sciences, 11% are male and 89% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Sentara College of Health Sciences students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	26
Black or African American	21
Hispanic or Latino	16
White	146
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	22

Online Learning at Sentara College of Health Sciences

There are 3 bachelor’s degree and 3 master’s degree programs available online at Sentara College of Health Sciences. In 2020-2021, 312 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Sentara College of Health Sciences has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 47th most popular in Virginia for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of Sentara College of Health Sciences

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Sentara College of Health Sciences was -30.5%. This is the #2,083 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Sentara College of Health Sciences regardless of major.

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.