Dental Hygiene/Hygienist at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

If you plan to study dental hygiene/hygienist, take a look at what The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UTHealth is located in Houston, Texas and has a total student population of 5,608.

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.

UTHealth Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Dental Hygiene

UTHealth Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the dental hygiene progam at UTHealth 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 dental hygiene major at UTHealth 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
Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	3
Best Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Trade Schools	3
Most Popular Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Undergraduate Certificate Trade Schools	6
Most Focused Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Undergraduate Certificate Trade Schools	6
	22
Most Popular Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	24
Most Focused Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	24
Best Value Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor’s Degree Schools	39
Most Popular Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Trade Schools	62
	74
Most Focused Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Trade Schools	93
Best Value Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Schools	220

Dental Hygiene Student Demographics at UTHealth

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the dental hygiene majors at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

UTHealth Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor’s Program

Of the 41 dental hygiene students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from UTHealth, about 2% were men and 98% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 40% 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 The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston with a bachelor's in dental hygiene.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	10
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	16
White	9
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

UTHealth 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 The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

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 Zereshk under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.