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title: "What can you do with a health science degree?"
description: "13 careers health science graduates commonly move into, with BLS median pay, projected growth and entry requirements for each."
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# What can you do with a health science degree?

**What the degree involves:** Anatomy, healthcare systems, medical terminology, and an early clinical placement.

Health science is a deliberately broad umbrella degree, and that is both its strength and its trap. It is a good base for the clinical graduate programmes and for the administrative, informatics and education side of healthcare, but unlike nursing it does not end in a licence, so the destination depends on what you add to it.

13 common destinations, ordered most common first rather than highest paid first. 2 of 13 have a master's or a doctoral or professional degree as their BLS typical entry education, and 13 of 13 are projected to grow. A major is a body of study, not a job assignment: these are destinations of people who took the degree, not what the degree entitles anyone to.

| # | Occupation | Median annual wage | Projected change | Openings a year | Typical entry education |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Medical Assistant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/medical-assistant) | $45,690 | +12.9% | 109,700 | Certificate |
| 2 | [Medical Records Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/medical-records-specialist) | $51,140 | +7.8% | 14,000 | Certificate |
| 3 | [Health Information Technologist and Medical Registrar](https://nuecareer.com/careers/health-information-technologist-and-medical-registrar) | $68,020 | +15.9% | 3,000 | Associate's |
| 4 | [Community Health Worker](https://nuecareer.com/careers/community-health-worker) | $51,850 | +12.7% | 7,000 | High school |
| 5 | [Health Education Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/health-education-specialist) | $64,070 | +5.6% | 6,900 | Bachelor's |
| 6 | [Patient Representative](https://nuecareer.com/careers/patient-representative) | $50,290 | +5.9% | 12,400 | Certificate |
| 7 | [Health Informatics Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/health-informatics-specialist) | $105,850 | +7.9% | 32,900 | Bachelor's |
| 8 | [Occupational Health and Safety Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/occupational-health-and-safety-specialist) | $90,150 | +18.5% | 17,100 | Bachelor's |
| 9 | [Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/medical-and-clinical-laboratory-technologist) | $62,930 | +2.7% | 20,800 | Bachelor's |
| 10 | [Respiratory Therapist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/respiratory-therapist) | $82,280 | +8.5% | 8,600 | Associate's |
| 11 | [Medical and Health Services Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/medical-and-health-services-manager) | $123,860 | +24.2% | 62,300 | Bachelor's |
| 12 | [Healthcare Social Worker](https://nuecareer.com/careers/healthcare-social-worker) | $67,880 | +8.5% | 16,900 | Master's (graduate study) |
| 13 | [Physician Assistant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/physician-assistant) | $135,880 | +21.1% | 11,500 | Master's (graduate study) |

Wages are BLS OEWS, May 2025. Projected change, annual openings and typical entry education are BLS Employment Projections. Occupation descriptions are O\*NET. Nothing on this page is estimated and no figure is generated by an AI model.

Full record for any row, including wage percentiles and state-level pay: https://nuecareer.com/careers/{slug} or https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/{slug}. Other majors: https://nuecareer.com/careers/majors

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

O\*NET content is used under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). How these figures are sourced and derived: https://nuecareer.com/careers/methodology