Dental Hygiene/Hygienist at Texas Woman’s University

If you plan to study dental hygiene/hygienist, take a look at what Texas Woman's University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

TWU is located in Denton, Texas and approximately 16,433 students attend the school each year. Of the 754 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Texas Woman's University in 2021, 61 of them were dental hygiene/hygienist majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Dental Hygiene/Hygienist section at the bottom of this page.

TWU Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Dental Hygiene

TWU Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks dental hygiene programs across the country. The following shows how TWU performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The dental hygiene major at TWU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Dental Hygiene/Hygienist. 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 Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor’s Degree Schools	6
Most Popular Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Schools	18
Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Schools	105
	151
Most Focused Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Schools	156

Dental Hygiene Student Demographics at TWU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the dental hygiene majors at Texas Woman’s University.

TWU Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 3% of dental hygiene bachelor's degrees went to men and 97% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 14% more racial-ethnic minorities in its dental hygiene bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Texas Woman's University with a bachelor's in dental hygiene.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	19
White	30
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

TWU also has a doctoral program available in dental hygiene. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

Careers That Dental Hygiene Grads May Go Into

A degree in dental 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 TX, the home state for Texas Woman's University.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Health Specialties Professors	13,930	$139,540
Dental Hygienists	13,850	$75,300

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 Michael Barera under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.