Utah·Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations·SOC 29-1224

Best programs to become a radiologist in Utah

1 Utah school offers programs that train radiologists, graduating 129 people a year. Radiologists in Utah earn a median of $417,250 across about 380 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

BLS lists a doctoral or professional degree as the typical entry-level education for radiologists. The field of study that leads most directly to this job in Utah is Medicine (IPEDS completions).

Diagnose and treat diseases and injuries using medical imaging techniques, such as x rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear medicine, and ultrasounds.

Also calledPhysicianRadiologistDiagnostic RadiologistNuclear Medicine PhysicianMammographerTeleradiologistNeuroradiologistNuclear Physician
Graduates / yr
129
in Utah
Median pay · Utah
$417,250
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
380
people employed
Schools
1
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
65%
across those schools
Median net price
—
per year, IPEDS

1 program in Utah that leads to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in Utah (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own Utah page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
1
CIP 51.1201In Utah →
129
100.0%
1$33,290$23,488

Top 1 schools in Utah

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 0 of the 1 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT Public · 1 feeder program
129Medicine—65%—86%

All 1 schools in Utah

Every school in Utah with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.

All schools in Utah that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
University of UtahSalt Lake CityPublic1291

Fields of study in Utah that lead to this job

Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.

What radiologists earn in Utah

What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.

Median annual in Utah
$417,250
Mean annual
$378,420
Jobs in state
380
What the range looks like
10th pct$165,740Median$417,25090th pct$450,010
Versus the national median
-0.9%

U.S. median $420,860. Utah pays below the national figure.

Job concentration
1.28×

Concentrated here: Utah employs more of this job per worker than the U.S. average.

Metro areas in Utah

Salt Lake City-Murray, UT
$449,940median
300 jobs

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
+2.7%
About as fast as average
Openings per year
800
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
800
28,200 → 29,000
Typical entry education
Doctoral or professional degree
Plus internship/residency

Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.

How to get in

The full skills and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national Radiologists page.

How to become a radiologist

Typical entry education
Doctoral or professional degree
On-the-job training
Internship/residency

The same job in other states

Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.

Related careers in Utah

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 20 majors mapped to Radiologists2 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 51.1201Medicine
  • 51.1202Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy
  • 61.0102Diagnostic Radiology/Nuclear Medicine Combined Specialty Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.1201Nuclear Medicine Residency Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.1299Nuclear Medicine Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other(no graduates reported)
  • 61.2501Radiation Oncology Residency Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.2599Radiation Oncology Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other(no graduates reported)
  • 61.2601Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.2602Integrated Interventional Radiology Residency Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.2603Abdominal Radiology Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.2604Diagnostic Radiologic Physics Residency Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.2605Medical Nuclear Physics Residency Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.2606Musculoskeletal Radiology Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.2607Neuroradiology Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.2608Nuclear Radiology Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.2609Pediatric Radiology Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.2610Radiologic Physics Residency Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.2611Therapeutic Radiologic Physics Residency Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.2612Vascular and Interventional Radiology Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.2699Radiology Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other(no graduates reported)

Common questions

Answers for people weighing radiologists programs in Utah.

What degree do you need to become a radiologist?+

BLS lists a doctoral or professional degree as the typical entry-level education for radiologists. The field of study that leads most directly to this job in Utah is Medicine (IPEDS completions).

Which college majors lead to becoming a radiologist?+

The field of study that leads most directly to this job in Utah is Medicine (IPEDS completions). In all, 1 feeder program graduates about 129 people a year in Utah (IPEDS completions).

How much do radiologists earn in Utah?+

The median is $417,250 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 0.9% below the U.S. median of $420,860. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.

Is demand for radiologists growing?+

BLS projects a +2.7% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, about as fast as average, with roughly 800 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in Utah?+

1 institutions in Utah reported graduates from at least one of the 1 program that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.

What other job titles do radiologists work under?+

Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records Physician, Radiologist, Diagnostic Radiologist, Nuclear Medicine Physician among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 29-1224.

Programs in UtahMedicine

About the data on this page

Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).

  • BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

    May 2025

    Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.

  • BLS Employment Projections

    2024–34

    Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.

  • IPEDS Completions

    2024-25 (provisional)

    Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.

  • College Scorecard, Field of Study

    2020-21 cohorts

    Median graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.

  • Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

    latest available

    Graduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.

  • NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk

    CIP 2020 / SOC 2018

    Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.

  • O*NET Database 30.3

    30.3

    Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.

    Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA

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