Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene at North Carolina A & T State University

If you plan to study occupational health and industrial hygiene, take a look at what North Carolina A & T State University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

NC A&T is located in Greensboro, North Carolina and has a total student population of 12,753. Of the 74 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from North Carolina A & T State University in 2021, 12 of them were occupational health and industrial hygiene majors.

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

NC A&T Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene

Online Classes Are Available at NC A&T

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? NC A&T offers distance education options for occupational health and industrial hygiene at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

NC A&T Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the occupational health and industrial hygiene progam at NC A&T 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 occupational health and industrial hygiene major at NC A&T is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene. 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 Online Occupational Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools	1
Most Popular Online Occupational Health Schools	1
Most Popular Occupational Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools	3
Most Focused Occupational Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools	3
Most Focused Occupational Health Schools	3
Most Popular Occupational Health Schools	4
Best Occupational Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools	4
Best Value Occupational Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools	4
	5
Most Popular Occupational Health Graduate Certificate Schools	6
Most Focused Occupational Health Graduate Certificate Schools	6
Best Value Occupational Health Schools	8
Best Occupational Health Schools	8
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Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene Student Demographics at NC A&T

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the occupational health and industrial hygiene majors at North Carolina A & T State University.

NC A&T Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 12 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in occupational health and industrial hygiene from NC A&T. About 50% were men and 50% were women. The typical occupational health and industrial hygiene bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% women. So female students are more repesented at NC A&T since its program graduates 13% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 47% more racial-ethnic minorities in its occupational health and industrial hygiene bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from North Carolina A & T State University with a bachelor's in occupational health and industrial hygiene.

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

NC A&T also has a doctoral program available in occupational health and industrial hygiene. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

Careers That Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene Grads May Go Into

A degree in occupational health and industrial 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 NC, the home state for North Carolina A & T State University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Health Specialties Professors	10,090	$134,300
Occupational Health and Safety Specialists	2,440	$69,870
Occupational Health and Safety Technicians	310	$55,550

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 Educatedblkman1914 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.