General Health & Wellness at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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

UT Rio Grande Valley is located in Edinburg, Texas and approximately 32,441 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.

UT Rio Grande Valley General Health & Wellness Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Health and Wellness

UT Rio Grande Valley General Health & Wellness Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks health and wellness programs across the country. The following shows how UT Rio Grande Valley 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 UT Rio Grande Valley 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
Most Popular General Health & Wellness Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	34
Best Value General Health & Wellness Bachelor’s Degree Schools	36
Most Popular General Health & Wellness Trade Schools	45
Best General Health & Wellness Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	59
Best Value General Health & Wellness Schools	60
Best General Health & Wellness Trade Schools	71
Most Focused General Health & Wellness Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	94
	94
Most Focused General Health & Wellness Trade Schools	118
	128

Health and Wellness Student Demographics at UT Rio Grande Valley

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the health and wellness majors at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

UT Rio Grande Valley General Health & Wellness Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 23 health and wellness majors earned their bachelor's degree from UT Rio Grande Valley. Of these graduates, 22% were men and 78% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 47% more racial-ethnic minorities in its health and wellness 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 Rio Grande Valley with a bachelor's in health and wellness.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	20
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

UT Rio Grande Valley 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 TX, the home state for The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
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

More about our data sources and methodologies.