General Health & Wellness at Rockhurst University

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

Rockhurst is located in Kansas City, Missouri and approximately 3,688 students attend the school each year.

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.

Rockhurst General Health & Wellness Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Health and Wellness

Rockhurst General Health & Wellness Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks health and wellness programs across the country. The following shows how Rockhurst 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 Rockhurst 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
Best General Health & Wellness Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	25
Most Focused General Health & Wellness Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	27
Most Popular General Health & Wellness Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	28
Best General Health & Wellness Trade Schools	30
Most Popular General Health & Wellness Trade Schools	36
Most Focused General Health & Wellness Trade Schools	42
	42
	67
Best Value General Health & Wellness Bachelor’s Degree Schools	72
Best Value General Health & Wellness Schools	100

Health and Wellness Student Demographics at Rockhurst

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

Rockhurst General Health & Wellness Bachelor’s Program

Of the 33 students who earned a bachelor's degree in General Health & Wellness from Rockhurst in 2020-2021, 36% were men and 64% were women. The typical health and wellness bachelor's degree program is made up of only 25% men. So male students are more repesented at Rockhurst since its program graduates 12% more men than average.

About 79% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in health and wellness at Rockhurst 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 Rockhurst University with a bachelor's in health and wellness.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	26
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

• General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences

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 MO, the home state for Rockhurst University.

Occupation	Jobs in MO	Average Salary in MO
Community Health Workers	1,370	$38,310

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 JZSJ under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.