Health Professions at University of Hawaii at Hilo

If you plan to study health professions, take a look at what University of Hawaii at Hilo has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UH Hilo is located in Hilo, Hawaii and approximately 3,165 students attend the school each year. Of the 632 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Hawaii at Hilo in 2021, 123 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.

UH Hilo Health Professions Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Health Professions
• Doctorate Degree in Health Professions

UH Hilo Health Professions Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks health professions programs across the country. The following shows how UH Hilo performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The health professions major at UH Hilo 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
Most Focused Health Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools	140
	225
Most Popular Health Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools	239
Best Health Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools	482
Best Value Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools	521
Best Value Health Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools	522
	707
Best Health Professions Schools	1,444
Best Value Health Professions Schools	1,691
Most Focused Health Professions Schools	1,814

Health Professions Student Demographics at UH Hilo

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the health professions majors at University of Hawaii at Hilo.

UH Hilo Health Professions Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 123 health professions majors earned their bachelor's degree from UH Hilo. Of these graduates, 29% were men and 71% were women. The typical health professions bachelor's degree program is made up of only 18% men. So male students are more repesented at UH Hilo since its program graduates 11% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 48% more racial-ethnic minorities in its health professions bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Hawaii at Hilo with a bachelor's in health professions.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	58
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	15
White	12
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	34

UH Hilo also has a doctoral program available in health professions. In 2021, 87 students 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 University of Hawaii at Hilo. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences	156
Nursing	54

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 HI, the home state for University of Hawaii at Hilo.

Occupation	Jobs in HI	Average Salary in HI
Registered Nurses	11,310	$98,080
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	7,550	$58,260
Home Health Aides	4,920	$27,620
Nursing Assistants	4,800	$35,770
Personal Care Aides	4,650	$27,530

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 Vreed under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.