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Dental Hygiene/Hygienist at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

29% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

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

SIUC is located in Carbondale, Illinois and approximately 11,366 students attend the school each year.

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.

SIUC Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Degrees Available

Bachelor’s Degree in Dental Hygiene

SIUC Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks dental hygiene programs across the country. The following shows how SIUC 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 dental hygiene major at SIUC 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 Trade Schools	30
Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	52
	60
Most Popular Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Trade Schools	84
Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Trade Schools	153

Dental Hygiene Student Demographics at SIUC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the dental hygiene majors at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

SIUC Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor’s Program

97% Women

29% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 35 students earned a bachelor's degree in dental hygiene from SIUC. About 97% of these graduates were women and the other 3% were men.

About 69% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in dental hygiene at SIUC 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 Southern Illinois University Carbondale with a bachelor's in dental hygiene.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	24
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

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 IL, the home state for Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Health Specialties Professors	10,070	$105,140
Dental Hygienists	9,450	$72,640

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 Mark Jaroski under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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