Environmental Health at East Carolina University

If you plan to study environmental health, take a look at what East Carolina University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

ECU is located in Greenville, North Carolina and has a total student population of 28,798. Of the 877 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from East Carolina University in 2021, 6 of them were environmental health majors.

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

ECU Environmental Health Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Health
• Master’s Degree in Environmental Health

Online Classes Are Available at ECU

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

ECU does offer online education options in environmental health for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

• Master’s Degree

ECU Environmental Health Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The environmental health major at ECU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Environmental 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 Popular Environmental Health Master’s Degree Schools	22
Best Value Environmental Health Schools	33
Most Focused Environmental Health Schools	35

In 2021, 9 students received their master’s degree in environmental health from ECU. This makes it the #22 most popular school for environmental health master’s degree candidates in the country.

Environmental Health Student Demographics at ECU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the environmental health majors at East Carolina University.

ECU Environmental Health Bachelor’s Program

Of the 6 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Environmental Health from ECU in 2020-2021, 50% were men and 50% were women. The typical environmental health bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% men. So male students are more repesented at ECU since its program graduates 16% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 49% more racial-ethnic minorities in its environmental health bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from East Carolina University with a bachelor's in environmental health.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

ECU Environmental Health Master’s Program

Of the 9 students who earned a master's degree in Environmental Health from ECU in 2020-2021, 44% were men and 56% were women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 34% men graduate in environmental health each year. ECU does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 10% more men than average.

Of the students who received a environmental health master's degree from ECU, 56% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from East Carolina University with a master's in environmental health.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	5
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

ECU also has a doctoral program available in environmental health. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• General Public Health
• Public Health Education and Promotion

Careers That Environmental Health Grads May Go Into

A degree in environmental 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 NC, the home state for East Carolina University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Health Specialties Professors	10,090	$134,300
Environmental Scientists and Specialists	3,790	$64,850
Occupational Health and Safety Specialists	2,440	$69,870
Occupational Health and Safety Technicians	310	$55,550
Epidemiologists	90	$82,820

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 Luca Masters under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.