Health Communication at Rider University

What traits are you looking for in a health communication school? To help you decide if Rider University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's health communication program.

Rider is located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and approximately 4,636 students attend the school each year.

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.

Rider Health Communication Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Health Communication

Online Classes Are Available at Rider

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Rider offers distance education options for health communication at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

Rider Health Communication Rankings

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.

Health Communication Student Demographics at Rider

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

Rider Health Communication Master’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 1 student earned a master's degree in health communication from Rider.

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

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

Related Majors

• General Organizational Communication
• Public Relations
• Sports 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 NJ, the home state for Rider University.

Occupation	Jobs in NJ	Average Salary in NJ
Public Relations Specialists	3,850	$75,670
Community Health Workers	1,250	$51,560
Communications Professors	940	$92,200

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 Magneticcarpet under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.