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Dental Hygiene/Hygienist at Truckee Meadows Community College

Dental Hygiene/Hygienist at Truckee Meadows Community College

If you plan to study dental hygiene/hygienist, take a look at what Truckee Meadows Community College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Truckee Meadows Community College is located in Reno, Nevada and approximately 10,249 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.

Truckee Meadows Community College Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Dental Hygiene

Truckee Meadows Community College Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Rankings

The dental hygiene major at Truckee Meadows Community College 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 Truckee Meadows Community College

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the dental hygiene majors at Truckee Meadows Community College.

Truckee Meadows Community College Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor’s Program

83% Women
75% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 17% of dental hygiene bachelor's degrees went to men and 83% 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 Truckee Meadows Community College since its program graduates 10% more men than average.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 38% 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 Truckee Meadows Community College with a bachelor's in dental hygiene.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 2
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 7
White 3
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 0

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 NV, the home state for Truckee Meadows Community College.

Occupation Jobs in NV Average Salary in NV
Dental Hygienists 2,540 $81,270
Health Specialties Professors 1,190 $95,720

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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