2024 Best Accredited Online Colleges for Dental Hygiene

DENTAL HYGIENE DEGREES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

Dental hygiene is an incredibly unpopular subject. Each subject gives out roughly 6,156 undergrad degrees per annum; 2,443 people received four-year degrees in dental hygiene last May, making it the United States' 129th most popular subject for college students. Northern Arizona University​ granted more of those degrees than any other U.S. college (59), and institutions in California accounted for more degrees than any U.S. State (248).

Picking the best institution for you is probably tricky, as 92 colleges across the country have four-year degrees in dental hygiene. There are 2.1 offering the typical subject per offering an undergraduate degree in dental hygiene, making it the 184th most broadly available US subject.

GRADUATE DEGREES

While last spring, 97% of degrees in dental hygiene were undergraduate degrees; 3% were postgraduate degrees. Dental hygiene is the 322nd most popular advanced degree in the nation, with 75 degrees granted. To put that in context, the average subject is 37 times more popular among postgraduate students than dental hygiene.

In Total, 2,518 students received a bachelor's or higher in dental hygiene last May.

ONLINE DENTAL HYGIENE DEGREES

124 of those 2,518 graduates (4.9%) did their school work remotely - 111 undergrad students and 13 postgrads. As you've presumably gathered, college students majoring in dental hygiene online are rather uncommon. It is presently the 118th most popular remote degree, and 76.9% under the national average of 481 students per major. For master's or doctor's students, it ranks 231st, and is 97.9% under the nation's average (616).

St Petersburg College​ conferred 18 online bachelor's degrees, more than any other US institution. Last fall, 10,306 undergraduates were attending the school completely online, 36% of their student body. They offer 12 comprehensively remote subjects. That's 55% of their programs.

Moreover, Colleges from Florida granted the most online four-year degrees in dental hygiene last May (18). Florida independently accounts for 16% of the discipline's remote students.

Undergrad degrees in dental hygiene are offered remotely at 28 colleges countrywide, making it the 184th most widely available online subject. 30% of colleges providing the degree even have an online option, and for each private school granting undergrad degree in dental hygiene there are 4.1 public institutions. Georgia has more remote programs than any state, with 3 schools headquartered there.

If you wish to study dental hygiene totally online, you should look into the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, as it has the 3rd best dental hygiene program in the country. They also have an additional 4 degrees entirely remotely, so you may try out classes from other majors. Moreover, they have 13 remote undergrad students.

PARTIALLY ONLINE DENTAL HYGIENE DEGREES

• 695 students completed an undergrad degree in dental hygiene partially online last year
• Partially online undergrad degrees in dental hygiene are available at 59 colleges across the nation
• Last May, 705 students earned a bachelor's or higher in dental hygiene partially online
• Herzing University-Minneapolis'​ last undergraduate class had the most dense population of partially online dental hygiene majors in the United States of America (28.66%)
• 99% of partially online degrees in dental hygiene last year were undergrad degrees; 1% were postgrad degrees
• On average, each major had about 1,368 partially online four-year degrees last spring

IN-PERSON DENTAL HYGIENE DEGREES

• Last year, 1,636 students were granted undergrad degrees in dental hygiene in-person
• Dental hygiene is the 227th most universally available in-person four-year degree across the country
• Last spring, 1,688 people completed a bachelor's or higher in dental hygiene in-person
• Careers Unlimited's​ last undergraduate class had the most dense population of comprehensively in-person dental hygiene majors in America (100%)
• Last spring, 97% of in-person degrees in dental hygiene were undergraduate degrees; 3% were grad degrees
• The typical major hands out 4,293 undergrad degrees per year entirely in-person