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Most Popular Schools for Health Communication Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on how people, individually and collectively, understand and accommodate to health and illness and the role of communication and media in shaping professional health care messages and public acceptance of these messages. Includes instruction in the development and use of health-related and care-related messages and media; the goals and strategies of health care promotion; relationships, roles, situations, and social structures in the context of health maintenance and promotion; and applications to disease prevention, health advocacy, and communications concerning treatments.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Northwestern University 50 1% $74,649
2 San Diego State University 41 0% $29,318
3 Tufts University 30 1% $73,500
4 Boston University 25 0% $72,618
5 University of Kentucky 25 0% $30,101
6 George Washington University 19 0% $71,930
7 Cedar Crest College 16 4% $53,610
8 University of Houston 16 0% $23,225
9 University of St Thomas 15 1% $56,664
10 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 14 0% $30,102
11 Pacific Union College 9 2% $43,527
12 North Dakota State University-Main Campus 9 0% $22,436
13 University of Utah 9 0% $24,472
14 Chapman University 8 0% $73,182
15 Juniata College 8 2% $60,368
16 Otterbein University 7 1% $46,908
17 Michigan State University 7 0% $28,862
18 Ashland University 6 0% $34,792
19 Columbia University in the City of New York 6 0% $76,856
20 Southeast Missouri State University 6 0% $21,570
21 Campbell University 4 0% $49,640
22 Gannon University 4 0% $48,464
23 Bellevue University 4 0% $20,970
24 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 4 0% $27,898
25 University of Dayton 3 0% $59,230
26 DePaul University 3 0% $57,678
27 University of South Carolina-Columbia 2 0% $28,301
28 Trinity Christian College 2 1% $43,865
29 University of Missouri-St Louis 2 0% $24,894
30 Wayne State University 2 0% $27,157
31 University of the Sciences 2 0% $45,638
32 South Dakota State University 2 0% $23,127
33 Xavier University of Louisiana 1 0% $37,437
34 University of Evansville 1 0% $52,190
35 Emerson College 1 0% $68,392
36 University of Wisconsin-Parkside 1 0% $19,597
37 Western New England University 1 0% $53,759
38 Mississippi College 1 0% $34,005
39 Ohio University-Main Campus 1 0% $28,986

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Health Communication program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.