Health Professions at Virginia Tech

42% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

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

Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia and has a total student population of 37,024.

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.

Virginia Tech Health Professions Degrees Available

Bachelor’s Degree in Health Professions
Master’s Degree in Health Professions

Virginia Tech Health Professions Rankings

The health professions major at Virginia Tech 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 38 students who received their doctoral degrees in health professions, making the school the #388 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Health Professions Student Demographics at Virginia Tech

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the health professions majors at Virginia Tech.

Virginia Tech Health Professions Bachelor’s Program

78% Women

42% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 22% of health professions bachelor's degrees went to men and 78% went to women. The typical health professions bachelor's degree program is made up of only 18% men. So male students are more repesented at Virginia Tech since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

About 54% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in health professions at Virginia Tech 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 Virginia Tech with a bachelor's in health professions.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	11
Black or African American	13
Hispanic or Latino	13
White	58
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	10

Virginia Tech Health Professions Master’s Program

90% Women

26% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 10% of health professions master's degrees went to men and 90% went to women.

Of the students who received a health professions master's degree from Virginia Tech, 74% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Virginia Tech with a master's in health professions.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	9
White	54
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

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 Virginia Tech. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Medicine	38
Public Health	34
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services	11

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 VA, the home state for Virginia Tech.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Registered Nurses	64,750	$69,790
Nursing Assistants	39,320	$28,770
Personal Care Aides	39,030	$21,240
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	38,820	$61,190
Software Applications Developers	38,110	$113,690

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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