Students interested in occupational health and industrial hygiene, you may also want to explore other closely related fields of study. Here you will find 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 occupational health and industrial hygiene, based on the NCES CIP-to-SOC career crosswalk. Sorted by the number of shared occupations.
| Similar Major | Shared Careers | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Toxicology | 3 | 78 |
| Radiation Protection/Health Physics Technician | 2 | 87 |
| Abdominal Radiology Fellowship Program | 1 | — |
| Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program | 1 | — |
| Adolescent Medicine Fellowship Program | 1 | — |
| Advanced General Dentistry | 1 | 238 |
| Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences, Other | 1 | 150 |
| Aerospace Medicine Residency Program | 1 | — |
| Allergy and Immunology Fellowship Program | 1 | — |
| Allergy and Immunology Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other | 1 | — |
| 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 |
| Environmental Health | 1,269 |
| Behavioral Aspects of Health | 623 |
| Health/Medical Physics | 288 |
| Maternal and Child Health | 180 |
| Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality | 121 |
Part of the broader field of Public Health, occupational health and industrial hygiene sits alongside related programs in that field.
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