General Health & Wellness at Oakwood University

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

Oakwood is located in Huntsville, Alabama and approximately 1,374 students attend the school each year. Of the 40 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Oakwood University in 2021, 2 of them were general health and wellness majors.

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

Oakwood General Health & Wellness Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Health and Wellness

Oakwood General Health & Wellness Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks health and wellness programs across the country. The following shows how Oakwood 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 health and wellness major at Oakwood is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Health & Wellness. 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 Health & Wellness Bachelor’s Degree Schools	72
Most Popular General Health & Wellness Bachelor’s Degree Schools	100
Most Focused General Health & Wellness Schools	101
Most Popular General Health & Wellness Schools	149

Health and Wellness Student Demographics at Oakwood

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the health and wellness majors at Oakwood University.

Oakwood General Health & Wellness Bachelor’s Program

Of the 2 health and wellness students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Oakwood, about 100% were men and 0% were women. The typical health and wellness bachelor's degree program is made up of only 24% men. So male students are more repesented at Oakwood since its program graduates 76% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 53% more racial-ethnic minorities in its health and wellness bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

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

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

Related Majors

Careers That Health and Wellness Grads May Go Into

A degree in health and wellness can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for AL, the home state for Oakwood University.

Occupation	Jobs in AL	Average Salary in AL
Community Health Workers	760	$42,830

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.