by our College Data Analytics TeamThe 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 The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Here, you’ll find out more about the major bachelor’s degree program in dental support, including such details as the number of graduates, ethnicity of students, related majors and concentrations, 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. In College Factual's most recent rankings for the best schools for dental support majors, UT Health San Antonio came in at #14. This puts it in the top 5% of the country in this field of study. It is also ranked #3 in Texas.
Here are some of the other rankings for UT Health San Antonio.
Out-of-state part-time undergraduates at UT Health San Antonio paid an average of $786 per credit hour in 2019-2020. The average for in-state students was $252 per credit hour. The average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates are shown in the table below.
| In State | Out of State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $6,051 | $18,855 |
| Fees | $2,274 | $2,274 |
Learn more about UT Health San Antonio tuition and fees.
You may also want to consider how much in student loans you’ll need when thinking about the overall cost to attend a school. Students who received their bachelor’s degree at UT Health San Antonio in Dental Support walked away with an average of $25,000 in student debt. That is 14% higher than the national average of $21,892.
dental support who receive their bachelor’s degree from UT Health San Antonio make an average of $53,858 a year during the early days of their career. That is about the same as the national average of $54,567.
UT Health San Antonio does not offer an online option for its dental support bachelor’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the UT Health San Antonio Online Learning page.
Women made up around 92.9% of the dental support students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is less than the nationwide number of 95.9%.
Of those graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in dental support at UT Health San Antonio in 2019-2020, 78.6% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 27%.
| Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
|---|---|
| Asian | 5 |
| Black or African American | 0 |
| Hispanic or Latino | 17 |
| Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
| Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
| White | 5 |
| International Students | 0 |
| Other Races/Ethnicities | 1 |
Dental Support Services students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
| Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Dental Hygiene/Hygienist | 28 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to dental support services.
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Allied Health Professions | 19 |
| Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science | 1 |
| Nursing | 325 |
*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.
