The Master of Public Health consists of 42 semester credit hours; 33 core credits and 9 concentration credits and can be completed in 15 months by taking courses in an accelerated 7 week format. It is offered as a joint degree program with the University of Bridgeport.
Our Professors are Public Health practitioners with a significant body of knowledge and years of experience.
The program prepares its graduates for a variety of roles in public health administration, policy, and advocacy through content that engages both the science and practice of public health management.
The program’s vision is that all individuals and communities have equitable opportunities to achieve health and well-being to live up to their full human potential.
MPH career options:
- Policy analysis in health planning organizations and governmental agencies
- Health maintenance organizations
- Public Health Officer
- Non Profit Executive Director
- Epidemiologist
- Congressional Staffer
- Biostatistician
- Health Promotion Specialist
- Researcher
- Emergency management
- Health insurance companies
- Occupational health and safety services
- Public Health education
- Environmental Health Officer
- Healthcare Administrative and management positions in:
- Hospitals
- Clinics
- State and local health departments
- Nursing homes
- Mental health facilities
Mission Statement
The mission of the Master of Public Health program is to develop the next generation of public health professionals to advance health equity and promote individual, family, and community health through innovative education, community service, and research.
Program Goals
We accomplish our mission by pursuing three specific goals:
- Prepare students for public health careers through engaging and innovative teaching and learning environments. (Instruction focus)
- Advance health equity at local, state, national, and global levels with a focus on social determinants of health and cultural competence through faculty and student scholarship. (Research focus)
- Involve students and faculty in creating solutions through service experiences that improve health and wellness and promote social justice. (Service focus)
Program Outcomes
To reach our goals in research, education, and service, we articulate a set of measurable objectives. We assess performance on these measures based on activities at all levels of organization of our academic and professional operations.
By the end of this program the student will be able to:
- Develop a public health professional’s understanding of global, national, regional and local public health issues.
- Apply epidemiologic methods to analyze patterns of disease and discuss application to control health discrepancies.
- Understand the relationship between biological, physical, and chemical environmental factors that affect human health.
- Apply public health principles of leadership and program management in the accessibility, quality, and health care cost analysis for individuals and populations.
- Identify behavioral, social, and cultural factors that influence individual and group health and contribute to health disparities.
Admission Requirements
In addition to meeting the University’s requirements of all graduate program applications, students interested in the Master of Public Health must also:
- Complete a graduate application for admission.
- Submit an official transcript verifying receipt of a bachelor’s degree from a college or university accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) or the equivalent of this degree from another country with a cumulative GPA of at least 2.5.
- Applicants with less than a 2.5 CGPA may be considered for conditional admittance into the program under certain circumstances.
Students with a cumulative grade point average of 2.5 or lower must interview with the MPH Director or Associate Director before admittance. If admitted, they will be conditionally admitted into the program under the following conditions:
- Meet with Academic advisor once a month.
- Maintain a 3.0 in the first semester.
- Strongly advise students conditionally admitted will take 6 credits in the first semester.
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