Health Education · North Carolina

North Carolina colleges that awarded Health Education credentials

13 colleges in North Carolina reported conferring Health Education credentials to the federal IPEDS collection in 2023-24, and every one of them also awarded in the year before. 13 awarded a degree. That is a record of credentials already awarded, not confirmation that a program is currently admitting.

Colleges and what they awarded

Largest first by credentials conferred in 2023-24. That order measures the size of the graduating class and nothing else: it is not a ranking, and the largest entry is often a certificate provider rather than the strongest degree program. The credential is labelled on every row for exactly that reason.

Colleges in North Carolina that conferred Health Education credentials in 2023-24, with the number awarded and whether any was a degree.
CollegeCredentials awardedHighest level
East Carolina University259Degree
University of North Carolina at Greensboro123Degree
University of North Carolina Asheville42Degree
Elon University39Degree
North Carolina Central University27Degree
Johnson C Smith University8Degree
Barton College6Degree
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill5Degree
Fayetteville State University4Degree
North Carolina Wesleyan University4Degree
Appalachian State University2Degree
Queens University of Charlotte2Degree
University of North Carolina Wilmington1Degree

How much of this field is in North Carolina

Credentials awarded
522
Share of U.S. total
14%
Colleges awarding it
13
Awarding a degree
13

North Carolina colleges conferred 522 Health Education credentials in 2023-24, which is 14% of the 3,758 conferred across the 40 U.S. jurisdictions reporting any. Of the 13 colleges here, every one awarded a degree. These counts measure the size of graduating classes, not program quality, and not how many students are currently enrolled.

What level those credentials were

  • Certificates<1%2
  • Bachelor's90%469
  • Graduate10%51

Most Health Education credentials awarded in North Carolina were bachelor's degrees. That is 25 percentage points more weighted toward bachelor's degrees than the field nationally, where they are 64% of credentials. A certificate is a different credential from a degree, not a lesser one, and the level a program awards is set by the program rather than by the student.

We measured how much this varies nationwide, and for most fields the credential level is set by the field rather than the state: is your major a certificate or a degree?

How concentrated it is. The single college with the largest reported graduating class in this field accounted for 50% of North Carolina’s Health Education credentials. Most of the state’s activity in this field sits at one institution, which is worth knowing if it is not somewhere you can attend.

What these North Carolina colleges cost

Median net price across the 13 of these 13 colleges that report it, by family income. Net price is what students receiving federal aid actually paid for the WHOLE college after grants and scholarships, so it is not the price of a Health Education program specifically, and not a quote for any family.

0-30k
$11,837
30-48k
$13,891
48-75k
$17,688
75-110k
$20,796
110k+
$23,621

By the kind of college

The figure above averages very different institutions together. Split by federal sector, for a family earning under $30,000:

Median net price for a family earning under $30,000, by kind of college, among North Carolina colleges that reported awarding Health Educationcredentials.
Kind of collegeCollegesMedian net price
Public four-year8$7,442
Private5$19,693

Sector is the federal classification (IPEDS ICLEVEL and CONTROL). Private covers both nonprofit and for-profit colleges, which CampusPin does not split here because the for-profit sample in a single state is usually too small to publish a median. Each row needs at least five colleges reporting net price, so a sector with fewer is left out rather than estimated.

A family earning under $30,000 paid a median of $11,837 at these colleges, against $23,621 for a family earning over $110,000. Individual colleges vary widely around these medians. See every North Carolina college by income band.

What this evidence does and does not prove

This lists colleges that reported conferring credentials in this field to the federal IPEDS completions collection, in both 2022-23 and 2023-24. It does not confirm that any of them is currently admitting students to the program, and a college can appear here after deciding to close it. Confirm with the institution before it affects where you apply.

How this list was built

From the U.S. Department of Education IPEDS completions collection, matched to each college on its exact federal program classification. A college appears only if it conferred credentials in both 2022-23 and 2023-24, which is what separates a running program from one that has already closed.

This page exists because its list of colleges is materially different from that of every closely related field in North Carolina — the fields a reader could otherwise mistake it for, such as two engineering disciplines, or nursing and practical nursing. Where a related field resolves to the same colleges, the second page would be the first one with its title changed, and CampusPin does not publish it. Sharing colleges with an unrelated field is different, and not a reason to withhold the page: in most states the same colleges award business, psychology and biology alike, which says something about the colleges rather than about the fields. We measured exactly how often that happens, and published the result: does choosing a major narrow your college list?

What Health Education graduates go on to do

Occupations the federal CIP–SOC crosswalk associates with Health Education, ordered by projected annual openings. National figures: openings and pay do not vary by where you studied, and the crosswalk describes related fields rather than a required or guaranteed path.

Occupations associated with Health Education, with median annual wage, projected annual openings, and the education most entrants hold.
OccupationMedian payOpenings / yrMost entrants hold
Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary$105,62027,400Doctoral or professional degree
Health Education Specialists$63,0007,900Bachelor's degree
Community Health Workers$51,0307,800High school diploma or equivalent

Crosswalk: U.S. Department of Education (NCES), CIP 2020 to SOC 2018. Pay and projections: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2024 wages, Employment Projections). “Most entrants hold” is what BLS observes about people already in the occupation, not a legal requirement, an admission rule, or a guarantee of entry. Projected openings are a projection, not jobs promised.

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