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Career Placement for Dental Hygiene

Career Placement

Graduates of the UNH dental hygiene program pursue careers in private practice, public health care, education, research, sales and marketing, and health care management. UNH graduates have been successful in pursuing careers in various areas of interest, such as

  • treating and educating patients in a private-practice setting.
  • working as team players in delivering dental hygiene services in community health centers.
  • teaching in institutions of higher education
  • working in pharmaceutical sales.

Graduate School

Frequently, students who earn bachelor’s degrees in dental hygiene continue their education on the graduate level, either at UNH or elsewhere.

Graduates may choose to pursue a master’s degree program at UNH in these or other fields:

            M.S., Health Care Administration

            M.B.A., Business Administration

            M.P.A., Public Administration

            M.S., Human Nutrition

  1. Blaze Your Path

    Our Career Development Center offers full career development services to help our students, as well as our alumni, learn how to effectively manage and develop their careers.