Health Communication at Otterbein University

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

Otterbein is located in Westerville, Ohio and approximately 2,886 students attend the school each year. Of the 106 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Otterbein University in 2019, 5 of them were health communication majors.

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.

Otterbein Health Communication Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Health Communication

Otterbein Health Communication Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks health communication programs across the country. The following shows how Otterbein 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 communication major at Otterbein is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Health Communication. 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 Health Communication Bachelor’s Degree Schools	3
Most Focused Health Communication Schools	6
Most Focused Health Communication Bachelor’s Degree Schools	6
Most Popular Health Communication Bachelor’s Degree Schools	8
Best Health Communication Schools	13
Most Popular Health Communication Schools	19

Health Communication Student Demographics at Otterbein

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

Otterbein Health Communication Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 20% of health communication bachelor's degrees went to men and 80% went to women.

About 100% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in health communication at Otterbein 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 Otterbein University with a bachelor's in health communication.

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

Otterbein also has a doctoral program available in health communication. In 2019, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Public Relations

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 OH, the home state for Otterbein University.

Occupation	Jobs in OH	Average Salary in OH
Public Relations Specialists	6,710	$62,740
Community Health Workers	1,970	$38,490
Communications Professors	1,410	$74,860

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 Wdzinc under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.