General Public Health at Roanoke College

If you are interested in studying general public health, you may want to check out the program at Roanoke College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Roanoke is located in Salem, Virginia and approximately 1,920 students attend the school each year. Of the 17 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Roanoke College in 2021, 17 of them were general public health majors.

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

Roanoke General Public Health Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in General Public Health

Roanoke General Public Health Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks general public health programs across the country. The following shows how Roanoke performed in these rankings.

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 general public health major at Roanoke is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Public 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 General Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools	18
Most Focused General Public Health Schools	57
Most Popular General Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools	106
Most Popular General Public Health Schools	220

General Public Health Student Demographics at Roanoke

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the general public health majors at Roanoke College.

Roanoke General Public Health Bachelor’s Program

Of the 17 students who earned a bachelor's degree in General Public Health from Roanoke in 2020-2021, 6% were men and 94% were women.

About 88% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in general public health at Roanoke 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 Roanoke College with a bachelor's in general public health.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	15
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Roanoke also has a doctoral program available in general public health. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

Careers That General Public Health Grads May Go Into

A degree in general public 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 VA, the home state for Roanoke College.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Medical and Health Services Managers	7,650	$116,770

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 roanokecollege under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.