Admission to Program
After completing approximately 60 hours of undergraduate coursework with a recommended GPA of 3.5, students will apply to the Double Dawgs pathway no later than spring of year 3. Application and admittance to the Double Dawgs pathway will allow students to take up to 12 credit hours of graduate-level coursework prior to formal admission to the M.P.H program.
Curriculum
Graduate-level courses that may be used to satisfy undergraduate and graduate program requirements.
EPID 7010 - Intro. to Epidemiology I (elective I)
EPID 7020 - Intro. to Epidemiology II (elective II)
EPID 7410 - Principles and Methods of Field Epidemiology I (elective IV)
EHSC 7010 - Fund. of Environmental Health Science I (elective III)
Additional requirements that are unique to this Double Dawgs program:
The MPH is a non-thesis professional degree. Students are required to fulfill all Epidemiology M.P.H program requirements, a six credit M.P.H Internship (PBHL 7560), and a three credit capstone project (PBHL 7800). Graduate credit hours must total 44 or more.
Admission to Graduate Program
Students will formally apply to the M.P.H program in the spring of year 4. They will begin registering as full-time M.P.H students in summer of year 4. For this particular curriculum, the summer year 4 semester is mandatory if students are to complete the MPH by the end of the 5th year.
Students need to have a recommended 3.0 GPA to apply to the M.P.H program.
Students must take the GRE or MCAT no later than early spring of year 4 in order to be considered for admissions in the M.P.H program by the April 15th deadline.
GRE recommended scores are 50th percentile or above in the quantitative, qualitative, and analytic portions of the exam.
MCAT recommended minimum scores should mirror the most recent available data on the average for the state.
Students must complete all EPID graduate courses and fieldwork before they can obtain the M.P.H.