Dental Hygiene/Hygienist at East Tennessee State University

If you plan to study dental hygiene/hygienist, take a look at what East Tennessee State University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

ETSU is located in Johnson City, Tennessee and has a total student population of 13,713. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 32 students received a bachelor's degree in dental hygiene from ETSU.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Dental Hygiene/Hygienist section at the bottom of this page.

ETSU Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Dental Hygiene

ETSU Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks dental hygiene programs across the country. The following shows how ETSU 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 dental hygiene major at ETSU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Dental Hygiene/Hygienist. 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 Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor’s Degree Schools	34
Most Popular Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Schools	100
Most Focused Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Schools	207

Dental Hygiene Student Demographics at ETSU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the dental hygiene majors at East Tennessee State University.

ETSU Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor’s Program

Of the 32 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Dental Hygiene/Hygienist from ETSU in 2020-2021, 6% were men and 94% were women. The typical dental hygiene bachelor's degree program is made up of only 5% men. So male students are more repesented at ETSU since its program graduates 1% more men than average.

About 84% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in dental hygiene at ETSU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from East Tennessee State University with a bachelor's in dental hygiene.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	27
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

ETSU also has a doctoral program available in dental hygiene. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

Careers That Dental Hygiene Grads May Go Into

A degree in dental hygiene can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for TN, the home state for East Tennessee State University.

Occupation	Jobs in TN	Average Salary in TN
Health Specialties Professors	5,690	$102,310
Dental Hygienists	3,770	$66,290

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 Boboskaditdatin under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.