Allied Health Professions at Temple University

Every allied health professions school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the allied health program at Temple University stacks up to those at other schools.

Temple is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and approximately 37,236 students attend the school each year.

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

Temple Allied Health Professions Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Allied Health
• Doctorate Degree in Allied Health

Online Classes Are Available at Temple

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? Temple offers distance education options for allied health at the following degree levels:

Temple Allied Health Professions 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.

There were 14 students who received their doctoral degrees in allied health, making the school the #8 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Earnings of Temple Allied Health Graduates

The median salary of allied health students who receive their bachelor's degree at Temple is $27,579. This is less than $51,384, which is the national average of all allied health majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Allied Health Student Demographics at Temple

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the allied health majors at Temple University.

Temple Allied Health Professions Master’s Program

Of the 36 students who earned a master's degree in Allied Health Professions from Temple in 2020-2021, 19% were men and 81% were women.

Of the students who received a allied health master's degree from Temple, 64% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	23
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Concentrations Within Allied Health Professions

If you plan to be a allied health major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Temple University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Physician Assistant	28
Athletic Training	22

Related Majors

• Health & Medical Administrative Services
• Advanced Dentistry & Oral Sciences
• Bioethics/Medical Ethics
• Medical Illustration & Informatics
• Communication Sciences

Careers That Allied Health Grads May Go Into

A degree in allied 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 PA, the home state for Temple University.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics	12,730	$33,980
Health Specialties Professors	12,420	$95,160
Physician Assistants	6,650	$98,510
Respiratory Therapists	5,810	$56,970
Health Technologists and Technicians	5,400	$43,070

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 Audrey under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.