Health Medical Physics

A program that focuses on the application of physics, nuclear science, and engineering physics to diagnostic, treatment, and therapeutic processes and public health protection. Includes instruction in radiation biophysics, biophysics, health effects of natural and artificially induced radiation, hazard evaluation, environmental radioactivity, nuclear physics, engineering physics, radiobiology, medical radiology, calibration and dosage theory, computer applications and medical informatics, and specific research problems.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 31 institutions across the United States, with a total of 733 degrees awarded annually.

Certificates Below Bachelor's

1

certificates awarded

Bachelor's Degrees

32

degrees awarded

Post-Baccalaureate Certificates

3

certificates awarded

Master's Degrees

163

degrees awarded

Doctoral Degrees

45

degrees awarded

Other Awards

489

awards given

Top Schools for Health Medical Physics

These institutions offer the most degrees in this program, ranked by total annual completions.

Rank Institution Degrees
1 Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR
114
2 University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
87
3 Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
Atlanta, GA
48
4 Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL
48
5 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
39
6 Rutgers University-New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ
36
7 The University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Knoxville, TN
30
8 San Diego State University
San Diego, CA
30
9 Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY
27
10 Creighton University
Omaha, NE
24
11 University of California-San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
24
12 University of New Mexico-Main Campus
Albuquerque, NM
21
13 University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY
21
14 John Patrick University of Health and Applied Sciences
South Bend, IN
18
15 Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
18
16 University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV
15
17 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, LA
15
18 University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
12
19 Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL
12
20 Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
12
21 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN
12
22 University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY
12
23 Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR
12
24 Brown University
Providence, RI
9
25 Purdue University-Main Campus
West Lafayette, IN
9
26 Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania
Bloomsburg, PA
6
27 Washington University in St Louis
Saint Louis, MO
6
28 Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
6
29 Rowan University
Glassboro, NJ
4
30 The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
3
31 North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Raleigh, NC
3