Howard 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. 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

Howard College does not publish a total cost for this program. The 2025-2026 tuition and program costs PDF is blocked by robots.txt 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 Texas

About 16,380 dental hygienists work in Texas. The middle half earn between $85,280 and $107,320 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). The federal survey publishes no figure for this area, so these are statewide numbers.

Program Facts

Credential

AAS

Length

Data coming soon

Schedule

In person

Starts

Fall 2027 (apply Sept 1, 2026 to Feb 1, 2027)

Before you apply

Science courses must be done by the December before applying and be no more than five years old; courses are not listed on the page.

Accreditation

CODA, Approval without reporting requirements (CODA Summer 2026 actions)

Leads to

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