Health Professions at University of Missouri - St Louis

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

UMSL is located in Saint Louis, Missouri and approximately 13,874 students attend the school each year.

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.

UMSL Health Professions Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Health Professions

Online Classes Are Available at UMSL

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? UMSL offers distance education options for health professions at the following degree levels:

UMSL Health Professions Rankings

The health professions major at UMSL 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.

There were 88 students who received their doctoral degrees in health professions, making the school the #261 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Health Professions Student Demographics at UMSL

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the health professions majors at University of Missouri - St Louis.

UMSL Health Professions Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 18% of health professions bachelor's degrees went to men and 82% went to women.

About 64% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in health professions at UMSL 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 University of Missouri - St Louis with a bachelor's in health professions.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	11
Black or African American	19
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	94
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	16

Concentrations Within Health Professions

Health Professions majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at University of Missouri - St Louis. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Nursing	254
Optometry	47

Related Majors

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 MO, the home state for University of Missouri - St Louis.

Occupation	Jobs in MO	Average Salary in MO
Registered Nurses	71,770	$65,130
Personal Care Aides	60,330	$23,020
Nursing Assistants	38,560	$25,930
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	22,150	$57,800
Medical Secretaries	16,750	$34,270

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.