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Environmental Health at Missouri Southern State University

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Environmental Health at Missouri Southern State University

What traits are you looking for in a environmental health school? To help you decide if Missouri Southern State University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's environmental health program.

Missouri Southern is located in Joplin, Missouri and approximately 5,045 students attend the school each year. Of the 157 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Missouri Southern State University in 2021, 26 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.

Missouri Southern Environmental Health Degrees Available

  • Basic Certificate in Environmental Health (Less Than 1 Year)
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Health

Online Classes Are Available at Missouri Southern

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.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Missouri Southern offers distance education options for environmental health at the following degree levels:

Missouri Southern Environmental Health Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the environmental health progam at Missouri Southern compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 Missouri Southern 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 Focused Environmental Health Basic Certificate Schools 1
Most Popular Online Environmental Health Basic Certificate Schools 1
Most Focused Environmental Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools 1
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Best Value Environmental Health Basic Certificate Schools 1
Best Environmental Health Basic Certificate Schools 1
Most Popular Environmental Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools 2
Most Popular Online Environmental Health Schools 2
Most Popular Environmental Health Basic Certificate Schools 2
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Most Focused Environmental Health Schools 4
Best Value Environmental Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools 4
Best Value Environmental Health Schools 7
Best Environmental Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools 8
Most Popular Environmental Health Schools 10
Best Environmental Health Schools 24

Environmental Health Student Demographics at Missouri Southern

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the environmental health majors at Missouri Southern State University.

Missouri Southern Environmental Health Bachelor’s Program

50% Women
23% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
In the 2020-2021 academic year, 26 students earned a bachelor's degree in environmental health from Missouri Southern. About 50% of these graduates were women and the other 50% were men. The typical environmental health bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% men. So male students are more repesented at Missouri Southern since its program graduates 16% more men than average.

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About 73% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in environmental health at Missouri Southern 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 Missouri Southern State University with a bachelor's in environmental health.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 2
Hispanic or Latino 3
White 19
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

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

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 MO, the home state for Missouri Southern State University.

Occupation Jobs in MO Average Salary in MO
Health Specialties Professors 4,710 $148,840
Occupational Health and Safety Specialists 1,580 $69,880
Environmental Scientists and Specialists 810 $53,820
Occupational Health and Safety Technicians 410 $44,420
Epidemiologists 110 $61,110

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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