Students interested in environmental health, consider exploring other closely related fields of study. The sections below cover majors with similar career paths, related concentrations and specializations, and the most popular similar majors, ranked by annual graduates.
Programs here prepare graduates for occupations that overlap with those of environmental health, based on the NCES CIP-to-SOC career crosswalk. Sorted by the number of shared occupations.
| Similar Major | Shared Careers | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Toxicology | 5 | 78 |
| Cell/Cellular Biology and Histology | 3 | 486 |
| Epidemiology | 3 | 3,053 |
| Molecular Toxicology | 3 | 2 |
| Toxicology | 3 | 152 |
| Abdominal Radiology Fellowship Program | 2 | — |
| Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program | 2 | — |
| Adolescent Medicine Fellowship Program | 2 | — |
| Allergy and Immunology Fellowship Program | 2 | — |
| Allergy and Immunology Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other | 2 | — |
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Public Health, General | 25,004 |
| Public Health Education and Promotion | 3,785 |
| Public Health, Other | 2,803 |
| Health Services Administration | 2,629 |
| Community Health and Preventive Medicine | 2,571 |
| Behavioral Aspects of Health | 623 |
| Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene | 313 |
| Health/Medical Physics | 288 |
| Maternal and Child Health | 180 |
| Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality | 121 |
As a more focused area within Public Health, environmental health connects to the wider programs in that field.
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