The main focus area for this major is Dental Hygiene/Hygienist. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Dental Support Services is a major offered under the health professions program of study at Rhode Island College. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the bachelor’s degree program in dental support, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, whether or not the degree is offered online, and more.
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In order to help students and their parents find the best school for them, we have created several different types of college rankings, which are updated yearly. The bachelor's program at RIC was ranked #248 on College Factual's Best Schools for dental support list. It is also ranked #2 in Rhode Island.
Here are some of the other rankings for RIC.
In 2019-2020, the average part-time undergraduate tuition at RIC was $856 per credit hour for out-of-state students. The average for in-state students was $347 per credit hour. Information about average full-time undergraduate tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $8,835 | $23,310 |
Fees | $1,425 | $1,425 |
Books and Supplies | $1,200 | $1,200 |
On Campus Room and Board | $12,488 | $12,488 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $1,440 | $1,440 |
Learn more about RIC tuition and fees.
Online degrees for the RIC dental support bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the RIC Online Learning page.
All of the students who received their Bachelor’s in dental support in 2019-2020 were women.
All of the dental support bachelor’s degree recipients at RIC in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 0 |
Black or African American | 0 |
Hispanic or Latino | 1 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 0 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 0 |
Dental Support Services students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Dental Hygiene/Hygienist | 1 |
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Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Health Sciences & Services | 29 |
Communication Sciences | 9 |
Health & Medical Administrative Services | 28 |
Allied Health Professions | 41 |
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science | 5 |
*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.