Concorde Career College, Grand Prairie 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. ²

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

Concorde Career College does not publish a total cost for this program. The program page refers to the campus catalog for tuition and gives no total 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 Dallas Area

About 7,050 dental hygienists work in the Dallas area. The middle half earn between $89,240 and $116,400 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).

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Program Facts

Credential

AAS

Length

As few as 17 months (88.5 credit hours)

Schedule

On campus with on-campus clinic

Before you apply

No prerequisite courses are listed for the associate program.

Accreditation

CODA, Approval without reporting requirements

Leads to

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