General Public Health at Austin College

If you are interested in studying general public health, you may want to check out the program at Austin College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Austin College is located in Sherman, Texas and approximately 1,302 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 24 students received a bachelor's degree in general public health from Austin College.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in General Public Health section at the bottom of this page.

Austin College General Public Health Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in General Public Health

Austin College General Public Health Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks general public health programs across the country. The following shows how Austin College performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The general public health major at Austin College is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Public Health. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused General Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools	3
Most Focused General Public Health Schools	18
Most Popular General Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools	90
Most Popular General Public Health Schools	189

General Public Health Student Demographics at Austin College

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the general public health majors at Austin College.

Austin College General Public Health Bachelor’s Program

The general public health program at Austin College awarded 24 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 21% of these degrees went to men with the other 79% going to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 21% more racial-ethnic minorities in its general public health bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Austin College with a bachelor's in general public health.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	7
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Austin College also has a doctoral program available in general public health. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Health Services Administration

Careers That General Public Health Grads May Go Into

A degree in general public health can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for TX, the home state for Austin College.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Medical and Health Services Managers	30,010	$105,450
Health Specialties Professors	13,930	$139,540
Community Health Workers	2,820	$41,640

References

*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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Michael Barera under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.