Health Communication at University of Houston

69% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

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

UH is located in Houston, Texas and approximately 47,090 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Health Communication section at the bottom of this page.

UH Health Communication Degrees Available

Bachelor’s Degree in Health Communication

UH Health Communication Rankings

The health communication major at UH is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Health Communication. 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.

Health Communication Student Demographics at UH

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the health communication majors at University of Houston.

UH Health Communication Bachelor’s Program

77% Women

69% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 23% of health communication bachelor's degrees went to men and 77% went to women. The typical health communication bachelor's degree program is made up of only 16% men. So male students are more repesented at UH since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 36% more racial-ethnic minorities in its health communication bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

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

Careers That Health Communication Grads May Go Into

A degree in health communication can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for TX, the home state for University of Houston.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Public Relations Specialists	28,360	$60,600
Community Health Workers	2,820	$41,640
Communications Professors	2,460	$68,900

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
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