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Overview
Herbalism/herbalist is a program that prepares individuals to utilize the materia medica and clinical practices of Western, Native American, African, australasian, and other herbal medicine traditions to prevent and cure illness and temporary physical disorders. includes instruction in basic anatomy, physiology, pathology, and toxicology; nutrition; terminology and materia medica; therapeutic herbalism; herbal pharmacy; botanicals and ethnobotany; wildcrafting and harvesting; labeling and dispensing phytotherapy; counterindications; practice management; consultation skills; and professional standards and ethics.
Highlights
Career with the highest median salary ($95K) where most workers have a Bachelor's Degree: General and Operations Managers
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Careers for program graduates
Herbalism/herbalist majors work in these careers, which are sized by percentage of majors in the career (at least 1%) and colored by the predominant level of education.
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Completions over time
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Salary and Debt
Context: median salaries
How does the median (middle) salary for treatment therapy professions majors compare to the median salaries for other college majors?
Distribution: treatment therapy professions majors' salaries by education level
What is the salary distribution for graduates with a bachelor's intreatment therapy professions by the level of their highest degree (Graduate degrees may not be in the same field as the bachelor’s)
We only include salary data when the survey error is less than 20%, so you may see only partial information for some categories.
Is a bachelor's degree all you need?
Education level of workers with a bachelor's in treatment therapy professions
Is a bachelor's degree going to be sufficient to make you competative in the job market? We can look at the education level of workers with a bachelors in this degree to see if there is a likely need for a graduate degree. You'll also want to check out the careers section on this page to where they are employed.
This chart shows the level of education of workers with a bachelor's degree in treatment therapy professions. The worker's graduate degree may have been completed in a different field.
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Context: Graduate degrees in any field by undergraduate ACS degree
About 46% of treatment therapy professions majors chose to also earn a graduate degree (possibly of a different major). The percentage of treatment therapy professions majors who also earned a graduate degree is higher than about 75% of other fields.
Context: Percentage salary boost obtained with a graduate degree
How important is a graduate degree for earning a higher salary? We can see the difference in salary of workers with a bachelors in this degree to workers with a bachelor’s AND a graduate degree.
Careers
Top careers for those with a degree in treatment therapy professions
Following are the most frequent jobs held by people who earned a bachelor's degree in Treatment Therapy Professions (which combines 21 programs), though may not be limited to just those with a bachelor’s.
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Careers for treatment therapy professions majors
Where do treatment therapy professions majors work, and how well do those jobs pay? A ** in the job title indicates that the Department of Education recommends this job for this program.
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The top ten careers for workers with a bachelor's in treatment therapy professions
Take a minute to interact with this sankey diagram. Follow the top ten jobs held by treatment therapy professions graduates through to their most hired majors. Learn where it may easiest to find work. Expand the careers to explore other majors that might lead to the job that excites you the most. *For many majors, the top ten jobs don't even include half of graduates!*
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What careers hire treatment therapy professions majors as one of their top 10?
To the left of this diagram, see all careers that hire treatment therapy professions majors as one of their top 10 majors, and on the right, see what proportion of openings for the jobs on the left are filled by treatment therapy professions majors.
Where can I complete this degree
Explore schools that offer herbalism/herbalist degrees and certificates
You can use this table to find schools that offer this program based on location and program level offered. Each entry goes to a school page similar to this one with all our information about that school.
Understanding the columns
The school list includes a few facts about each school that give you an idea of the educational quality each school might offer:
Student-Faculty Ratio: A small number of students per full-time instructor suggests individual attention for each student and an up-to-date curriculum.
Satisfaction Rate: A high percentage of returning first-year students should correlate with satisfaction (schools call this their retention rate).
Repayment Rate: A high repayment rate means most alumni earn enough to make progress repaying loans within 7 years of leaving.
We also show the total enrollment for the school as measured by full-time-equivalent (FTE) students enrolled annually.
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Related Programs
Top 10 similar programs
Following are related programs, ordered by those with the highest number of completions. You can explore a full list by pressing the more details button.
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Careers for treatment therapy professions majors
treatment therapy professions is part of a larger collection of programs: Healthcare Practitioners and Therapists. Is there a different program that's close to treatment therapy professions that might be a better match for your interests? You can use this table to see a little about the programs that fall under this umbrella. If you click on any of the table headers, that will sort the table by that column, or click on a row and see Ididio's profile for that program.
Gender
Gender of recent graduates
Of all people with any degree in herbalism/herbalist earned in the last academic year, 77% were women.
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Context: Gender representation
How does the gender distribution in this major compare to all other majors?
Context: Percentage women
This major has a higher percentage of women than 78% other programs.
Distribution: salaries by gender
Does gender greatly influence your salary with this degree? The closer the bar are, the less discrepancy there is.
Context: Salary inequity
For treatment therapy professions graduates, men have a 12% higher median salary than women, This is better than many: 81% of programs have graduates with higher salary inequities.
Race/Origin
Race/Origin of recent graduates
Here is an overview of race/origin for all herbalism/herbalist graduates from this last academic year. We found a lower percentage of international graduates than in 55% of other programs.
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Black
Pacific Islander
Hispanic
Asian
American Indian
Multiracial
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International
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Completions over time
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Context: Percentage of Minority Graduates
Minority students comprise a lower percentage of graduates than in 79% of other programs.
