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Dental Hygiene/Hygienist at Wichita State University

Dental Hygiene/Hygienist at Wichita State University

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

WSU is located in Wichita, Kansas and has a total student population of 14,999.

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.

WSU Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Dental Hygiene

Online Classes Are Available at WSU

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? WSU offers distance education options for dental hygiene at the following degree levels:

  • Bachelor’s Degree

WSU Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Rankings

The dental hygiene major at WSU 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 WSU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the dental hygiene majors at Wichita State University.

WSU Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor’s Program

96% Women
38% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 4% of dental hygiene bachelor's degrees went to men and 96% went to women.

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About 61% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in dental hygiene at WSU are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Wichita State University with a bachelor's in dental hygiene.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 3
Black or African American 2
Hispanic or Latino 13
White 34
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 4

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 KS, the home state for Wichita State University.

Occupation Jobs in KS Average Salary in KS
Dental Hygienists 2,280 $64,980
Health Specialties Professors 380 $84,400

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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