Health Communication at DePaul University

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

DePaul is located in Chicago, Illinois and has a total student population of 22,437.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Health Communication section at the bottom of this page.

DePaul Health Communication Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Health Communication

DePaul Health Communication Rankings

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Health Communication Student Demographics at DePaul

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the health communication majors at DePaul University.

DePaul Health Communication Master’s Program

Of the 4 health communication students who graduated with a master's degree in 2018-2019 from DePaul, about 0% were men and 100% were women.

In the health communication master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 50% of degree recipients. That is 19% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from DePaul University with a master's in health communication.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• International & Intercultural Communication
• General Organizational Communication
• Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication

Careers That Health Communication Grads May Go Into

A degree in health communication 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 DePaul University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Public Relations Specialists	7,360	$66,220
Communications Professors	1,810	$78,810
Community Health Workers	1,270	$42,250

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 Just under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.