by our College Data Analytics TeamStudents interested in patient safety and healthcare quality, take a look at other closely related fields of study. The sections below cover majors with similar career paths, related concentrations and specializations, and the most popular similar majors, ranked by annual graduates.
Programs here prepare graduates for occupations that overlap with those of patient safety and healthcare quality, based on the NCES CIP-to-SOC career crosswalk. Sorted by the number of shared occupations.
| Similar Major | Shared Careers | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Toxicology | 3 | 78 |
| Clinical, Hospital, and Managed Care Pharmacy | 2 | 20 |
| Health Policy Analysis | 2 | 301 |
| Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management | 2 | 84 |
| Pharmacoeconomics/Pharmaceutical Economics | 2 | 150 |
| Pharmacy Administration and Pharmacy Policy and Regulatory Affairs | 2 | 150 |
| Pharmacy | 2 | 12,167 |
| Radiation Protection/Health Physics Technician | 2 | 87 |
| Regulatory Science/Affairs | 2 | 106 |
| Abdominal Radiology Fellowship Program | 1 | — |
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Public Health, General | 25,004 |
| Public Health Education and Promotion | 3,785 |
| Public Health, Other | 2,803 |
| Health Services Administration | 2,629 |
| Community Health and Preventive Medicine | 2,571 |
| International Public Health/International Health | 1,500 |
| Environmental Health | 1,269 |
| Behavioral Aspects of Health | 623 |
| Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene | 313 |
| Health/Medical Physics | 288 |
| Maternal and Child Health | 180 |
As a more focused area within Public Health, patient safety and healthcare quality connects to the wider programs in that field.
More about our data sources and methodologies.