Health Education at Virginia Commonwealth University

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

VCU is located in Richmond, Virginia and approximately 29,070 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 428 students received a bachelor's degree in school health education from VCU.

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

VCU Health Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in School Health Education

VCU Health Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the school health education progam at VCU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The school health education major at VCU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Health Education. 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 Health Education Schools	1
Most Focused Health Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	1
Best Value Health Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	52
	53
	75
Best Value Health Education Schools	75

School Health Education Student Demographics at VCU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the school health education majors at Virginia Commonwealth University.

VCU Health Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 428 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Health Education from VCU in 2020-2021, 27% were men and 73% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 24% more racial-ethnic minorities in its school health education bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a bachelor's in school health education.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	55
Black or African American	123
Hispanic or Latino	61
White	150
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	34

VCU also has a doctoral program available in school health education. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Physical Education Teaching & Coaching
• Reading Teacher Education
• Art Education

Careers That School Health Education Grads May Go Into

A degree in school health education can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for VA, the home state for Virginia Commonwealth University.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
High School Teachers	26,830	$68,770
Middle School Teachers	17,130	$66,870

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 user:mentes under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.