Austin Community College Dental Hygiene Program: Pass Rate, Jobs and Local Pay

How Graduates Do

CODA requires every accredited program to publish the same outcome measures, so they can be compared program to program. ³

Graduates who passed the National Board Dental Hygiene Examination, as the program publishes it. CODA does not require programs to post a standard set of outcomes, so many Texas programs publish none, and those that do differ in years and detail. Job placement: graduates employed as dental hygienists, as the program reports it.

What It Costs

Austin Community College does not publish a total cost for this program. The program cost sheet is a Google Drive file the fetch tool could not open, and no total appears on the program pages Ask the program for its cost sheet; contact details are on its page.

For comparison only, not this program's price: the 13 Texas dental hygiene programs that publish a cost range from $4,290 to $29,729, with a median of $13,670.

Jobs and Pay in the Austin Area

About 1,270 dental hygienists work in the Austin area. The middle half earn between $94,630 and $119,690 a year; new graduates usually start toward the lower end. Texas expects about 1,370 openings a year statewide through 2034, from new positions, retirements and people changing jobs, with the number of jobs growing 21.8% (from 15,550 to 18,950).

Program Facts

Credential

AAS

Length

Data coming soon

Schedule

In person

Before you apply

Listed in a degree plan on the application page, which could not be opened.

Entrance exam

TEAS required

Accreditation

CODA, Approval without reporting requirements; next site visit April 20 to 21, 2027

Leads to

National Board Dental Hygiene Examination (NBDHE), a clinical licensing exam and a Texas license