General Public Health at The University of Texas at Austin

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

UT Austin is located in Austin, Texas and has a total student population of 50,476. Of the 606 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 2021, 173 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.

UT Austin General Public Health Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in General Public Health

UT Austin General Public Health Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the general public health progam at UT Austin compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 general public health major at UT Austin 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 Popular General Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools	17
Most Popular General Public Health Schools	36
Best Value General Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools	98
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General Public Health Student Demographics at UT Austin

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the general public health majors at The University of Texas at Austin.

UT Austin General Public Health Bachelor’s Program

The general public health program at UT Austin awarded 173 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 21% of these degrees went to men with the other 79% going to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 22% more racial-ethnic minorities in its general public health bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's in general public health.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	60
Black or African American	15
Hispanic or Latino	41
White	42
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	9

UT Austin 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

• Public Health Education and Promotion
• Behavioral Aspects of Health

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 TX, the home state for The University of Texas at Austin.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Medical and Health Services Managers	30,010	$105,450
Health Specialties Professors	13,930	$139,540
Community Health Workers	2,820	$41,640

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 Reid Sullivan under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.