The main focus area for this major is Public Health Education and Promotion. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Public Health is a major offered under the health professions program of study at The University of Texas at El Paso. Here, you’ll find out more about the major bachelor’s degree program in public health, including such details as the number of graduates, diversity of students, and more.
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Each year, we produce a number of different types of college rankings to help students decide which school is the best fit for them. The bachelor's program at UTEP was ranked #382 on College Factual's Best Schools for public health list. It is also ranked #19 in Texas.
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Out-of-state part-time undergraduates at UTEP paid an average of $750 per credit hour in 2019-2020. The average for in-state students was $248 per credit hour. The following table shows the average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $7,446 | $22,512 |
Fees | $1,804 | $1,804 |
Books and Supplies | $1,632 | $1,632 |
On Campus Room and Board | $9,496 | $9,496 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $3,382 | $3,382 |
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One way to think about how much a school will cost is to look at how much in student loans that you have to take out to get your degree. Public Health students who received their bachelor’s degree at UTEP took out an average of $25,000 in student loans. That is about the same as the national average of $25,159.
The median early career salary of public health students who receive their bachelor’s degree from UTEP is $23,260 per year. That is 27% lower than the national average of $32,049.
Online degrees for the UTEP public health bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the UTEP Online Learning page.
Women made up around 78.3% of the public health students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is less than the nationwide number of 80.5%.
Of those graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in public health at UTEP in 2019-2020, 78.3% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 50%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 2 |
Black or African American | 3 |
Hispanic or Latino | 30 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 1 |
White | 5 |
International Students | 5 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 0 |
Public Health students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Public Health Education and Promotion | 46 |
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Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science | 20 |
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 46 |
Nursing | 347 |
*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.