The main focus area for this major is General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Health Sciences & Services is a major offered under the health professions program of study at University of Delaware. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the bachelor’s degree program in health science, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, and more.
If there’s something special you’re looking for, you can use one of the links below to find it:
Each year, we produce a number of different types of college rankings to help students decide which school is the best fit for them. UD is in the top 10% of the country for health science. More specifically it was ranked #27 out of 495 schools by College Factual. It is also ranked #1 in Delaware.
Here are some of the other rankings for UD.
During the 2019-2020 academic year, part-time undergraduate students at UD paid an average of $1,423 per credit hour if they came to the school from out-of-state. In-state students paid a discounted rate of $530 per credit hour. Information about average full-time undergraduate tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
---|---|---|
Tuition | $12,730 | $34,160 |
Fees | $1,930 | $1,930 |
Books and Supplies | $1,000 | $1,000 |
On Campus Room and Board | $13,472 | $13,472 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $1,800 | $1,800 |
Learn more about UD tuition and fees.
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. Health Science students who received their bachelor’s degree at UD took out an average of $25,861 in student loans. That is about the same as the national average of $25,858.
Online degrees for the UD health science bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the UD Online Learning page.
Women made up around 88.5% of the health science students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 77.3%.
Of those graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in health science at UD in 2019-2020, 23.1% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 49%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
---|---|
Asian | 7 |
Black or African American | 2 |
Hispanic or Latino | 6 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 58 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 5 |
Health Sciences & Services students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
---|---|
General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences | 78 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to health sciences and services.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
---|---|
Allied Health Professions | 23 |
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science | 22 |
Public Health | 129 |
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services | 40 |
Nursing | 195 |
*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.