Health Communication at Eastern Illinois University

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

EIU is located in Charleston, Illinois and approximately 8,626 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 8 students received a bachelor's degree in health communication from EIU.

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.

EIU Health Communication Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Health Communication

EIU Health Communication Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks health communication programs across the country. The following shows how EIU performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The health communication major at EIU 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
	4
	9
	9
	12
	14
	16
	29

Health Communication Student Demographics at EIU

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

EIU Health Communication Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 8 students earned a bachelor's degree in health communication from EIU. About 75% of these graduates were women and the other 25% were men. The typical health communication bachelor's degree program is made up of only 18% men. So male students are more repesented at EIU since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

About 75% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in health communication at EIU 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 Eastern Illinois University with a bachelor's in health communication.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	6
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

EIU also has a doctoral program available in health communication. In 2021, 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 IL, the home state for Eastern Illinois 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 Nyttend under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.