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Health Professions Programs
Communication Disorders & Sciences
The inability to communicate fluently can be frustrating. As a speech pathologist, helping children and adults overcome communication issues can open their world. You will learn to assess, treat, research, and prevent cognitive and physical communication disorders of all types.
Counseling and Rehabilitation Education
Looking to make a positive impact? Consider a challenging yet rewarding career as a counselor. SIU’s M.S. degree prepares future clinical mental health counselors and clinical rehabilitation counselors. Our program also focuses on the relationship between physical and psychological health.
Dental Hygiene
A healthy mouth is imperative for a healthy life. As a dental hygienist, you will not only provide care and treatment, you will educate, counsel, and perform diagnostics and screenings. Our bachelor’s degree prepares students for careers in research, teaching, and clinical practice.
Health Administration
Seeking, providing, and receiving medical care can be stressful. A health administrator works behind the scenes to provide a positive experience for patients, health care providers, guests, and staff. Our master’s program focuses on planning, staffing, budgeting, and department policy-making and organization for health care facilities.
Health Care Management
Career opportunities for health care managers are abundant and growing. You will learn how to assure the overall needs of health care facilities are met and they operate smoothly. Our program covers a wide range of courses, including policy, payment systems, and law.
Health Informatics
Reduce health care costs, streamline care, and protect patient privacy with a career in this essential industry. Learn to collect, analyze, and process patient information, apply medical concepts, and health information technology. Data analytic skills are critical in the digital health care transformation.
Medical Dosimetry
In this highly technical and rewarding field, critically ill patients benefit from your expertise. Using imaging and scans, the medical dosimetrist designs a specific plan of treatment for each patient including appropriate dosage and angles of radiation therapy.
Mortuary Science & Funeral Services
This compassionate profession touches everyone at some point. If you love working with people and have a flair for the arts and sciences, look no further. Our well-rounded degree program covers anatomy, business, cosmetology, pathology, and more.
Nursing
Nurses make a difference in the lives of people every day. Learn to administer care and treatment with empathy, perform health assessments, and educate. In addition to hospitals, find careers at resorts, schools, law offices, and cruise ships.
Nutrition and Dietetics
Dietitians are instrumental in bridging the gap between diet, health and disease. Students in both the undergraduate Didactic Program in Dietetics and Master of Science program in food and nutrition, are immersed in the study of nutrition issues, food systems and body functions during coursework in this ACEND accredited program.
Occupational Therapy
Performing daily tasks is something many take for granted. Occupational therapists help individuals and communities improve life satisfaction through the therapeutic use of everyday life activities to overcome the physical and mental health barriers that affect well-being and quality of life.
Physical Therapist Assistant
If you enjoy people and are personable and motivational, consider a career as a physical therapist assistant. Under the direction of a physical therapist, you will teach and guide patients through exercises for mobility, strength, and coordination, and administer treatments.
Public Health
If the topic of public health, as it relates to community welfare and management of public health facilities, is of interest to you, this program provides the foundation for a career in this always evolving field. The public health program offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Radiologic Sciences
When diagnosing a disease or injury, accuracy is critical. A radiologic sciences professional assists physicians by using sophisticated medical imaging technology such as x-rays, sound waves, and other imaging to ensure accurate diagnoses and effective treatment plans.
Recreation Professions
Recreation is serious business with a healthy employment outlook. People generally are taking wellness and quality of life more seriously. We offer both undergraduate and graduate degrees and have three areas of interest in both programs: Recreation Administration, Outdoor Recreation Resource Management, Therapeutic Recreation.
Program | Bachelor's | Master's | Doctoral | Minor | Online |
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Clinical Leadership certificate | Certificate | ||||
Communication Disorders & Sciences | BS | MS | |||
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Preprofessional Program | BS | ||||
Counseling and Rehabilitation Education | MS | ||||
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Clinical Mental Health Counseling | MS | ||||
Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling | MS | ||||
Dental Hygiene | BS | BS Completion | |||
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Education and Management | BS | ||||
Gerontology certificate | Certificate | ||||
Health Administration | MHA, Certificate | MHA | |||
Health Care Management | BS |
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BS | ||
Health Informatics | MHI | MHI | |||
Medical Dosimetry | MS | MS | |||
Mortuary Science & Funeral Services | BS | BS Completion | |||
Nursing | BSN | BSN Completion | |||
Nutrition and Dietetics | BS | MS |
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Occupational Therapy | OTD | ||||
Physical Therapist Assistant | AAS | ||||
Public Health | BS | MPH | MPH | ||
Radiologic Sciences | BS, AAS | MS | BS Completion, MS | ||
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Cardiac Intervention Radiography | AAS, BS | ||||
Diagnostic Medical Sonography (Ultrasound) | BS | ||||
Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Computed Tomography | BS | ||||
Radiation Therapy Technology | BS | ||||
Radiologic Sciences Management/Education | BS | ||||
Recreation Professions | BS | MSED |
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Specializations/Concentrations: | |||||
Recreation Management | BS | ||||
Therapeutic Recreation | BS | ||||
Outdoor Leadership & Management | BS | ||||
Substance use Disorders and Behavioral Addiction certificate | Certificate |