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General Health & Wellness at Purdue University - Main Campus

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General Health & Wellness at Purdue University - Main Campus

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

Purdue is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and approximately 46,655 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 15 health and wellness majors received their bachelor's degree from Purdue.

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.

Purdue General Health & Wellness Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Health and Wellness

Purdue General Health & Wellness Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks health and wellness programs across the country. The following shows how Purdue 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 Purdue 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
21
Best Value General Health & Wellness Bachelor’s Degree Schools 30
Most Popular General Health & Wellness Schools 69
Most Focused General Health & Wellness Schools 164

Health and Wellness Student Demographics at Purdue

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

Purdue General Health & Wellness Bachelor’s Program

80% Women
20% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
The health and wellness program at Purdue awarded 15 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 20% of these degrees went to men with the other 80% going to women.

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About 73% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in health and wellness at Purdue 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 Purdue University - Main Campus with a bachelor's in health and wellness.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 1
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 2
White 11
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 0

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

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 IN, the home state for Purdue University - Main Campus.

Occupation Jobs in IN Average Salary in IN
Community Health Workers 1,630 $42,000

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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