The main focus area for this major is Dental Hygiene/Hygienist. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Dental Support Services is a major offered under the health professions program of study at University of Louisiana at Monroe. We’ve gathered data and other essential information about the bachelor’s degree program in dental support, such as if the program is offered online, ethnicity of students, how many students graduated in recent times, and more.
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In order to help students and their parents find the best school for them, we have created several different types of college rankings, which are updated yearly. The bachelor's program at ULM was ranked #90 on College Factual's Best Schools for dental support list. It is also ranked #2 in Louisiana.
Here are some of the other rankings for ULM.
In 2019-2020, the average part-time undergraduate tuition at ULM was $365 per credit hour for both in-state and out-of-state students. The average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates are shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $5,788 | $17,888 |
Fees | $3,282 | $3,282 |
Books and Supplies | $1,300 | $1,300 |
On Campus Room and Board | $8,914 | $8,914 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $4,260 | $4,260 |
Learn more about ULM tuition and fees.
You may also want to consider how much in student loans you’ll need when thinking about the overall cost to attend a school. Students who received their bachelor’s degree at ULM in Dental Support walked away with an average of $21,500 in student debt. That is about the same as the national average of $21,892.
The median early career salary of dental support students who receive their bachelor’s degree from ULM is $61,681 per year. That is 13% higher than the national average of $54,567.
ULM does not offer an online option for its dental support bachelor’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the ULM Online Learning page.
Women made up around 96.0% of the dental support students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is about the same as the countrywide number of 95.9%.
Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 12.0% of the dental support bachelor’s degrees at ULM in 2019-2020. This is lower than the nationwide number of 27%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 2 |
Black or African American | 1 |
Hispanic or Latino | 0 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 21 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 1 |
Dental Support Services students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Dental Hygiene/Hygienist | 25 |
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Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Communication Sciences | 27 |
Allied Health Professions | 36 |
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science | 24 |
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences | 73 |
Nursing | 116 |
*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.
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