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Public Health Program URL: http://www.uis.edu/publichealth/ Campus: Springfield Number of Required Campus Visits: 0
Program Type: Master's Degree Award Conferred: Master of Public Health Total Number of Credit Hours: 48 Sem. Hr(s). Description:
Note: e-Tuition available for this program.
The goal of the Public Health Department is to prepare graduates as competent public health practitioners. Public health is an essential function of modern society. It is, in the words of the Institute of Medicine, “What we as a society do collectively to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy.” Assuring the public's health at the community level often means affecting policies and actions at the national, or even international, level. Public health professionals must deal with myriad issues: access to quality health care, prevention and control of disease, environmental protection, the health needs of special populations, data analysis and evaluation, policy planning and administration, and health promotion.
The department offers an MPH with concentration in Environmental Health within which a student may generalize or may chose to emphasize preparation in risk assessment or emergency preparedness and homeland security. The curriculum enables students to understand 1) the various factors that affect the health of a community; 2) the methods to identify and measure community health; and 3) the components that comprise public health services delivery systems (cost, planning, and administration). While the department's required core courses provide the generalist background needed by all students, the concentration core in environmental health and elective courses allow students to concentrate on a particular aspect of public health.
Admission requirements include a Bachelor's degree with a GPA of at least 3.0/4.0, at least 30 hours of undergraduate natural sciences, and a statistics/biostatistics course with a grade of B or better taken within the last three years, and GRE scores. Applicants with an advanced degree or public health license are exempt from the GRE requirement.
Applicants must submit the UIS admission application, application fees, official transcripts and GRE scores to the Office of Admissions. The MPH program application, three recommendation forms, and a separate copy of the goals statement must be submitted directly to the program office PAC 308.
Please visit www.uis.edu/publichealth/ for a complete list of courses. Admission Requirement(s): Applicants must submit an admission application and transcripts from previous college-level academic work to the UIS Office of Admissions and Records. As a second part of the admissions process, applicants must submit to the department 1) an essay outlining professional goals and identifying past academic work and/or employment related to these goals; 2) three completed recommendation forms from employers, professional peers, or educators; and 3) Graduate Record Exam (GRE) scores in the general examination should be sent directly to Office of Admissions and Records. (Other aptitude tests -- Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), Dental Aptitude Test (DAT), Law School Admission Test (LSAT), or the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) -- can be submitted). Applicants with postbaccalaureate degrees are exempted from submitting GRE scores.
Applicants must have earned an overall GPA of 3.00 (4.00 point scale) for previous academic work, completed 300-level or higher biostatistics or statistics course within the last three years and received a B or better grade, and completed a minimum of 30 semester hours in the natural sciences. Conditional admission may be possible for those with public health or environmental health experience who are missing one or more of the conditions listed. To be fully admitted, conditionally admitted students must have a 3.00 GPA at the end of their first 12 semester hours of study and receive a B or better grade in MPH 503 Biostatistics for the Health Professional. Students who take TOEFL exams must score 580 or better.
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Contact Institution Program Contact(s):
Public Health
University of Illinois at Springfield
One University Plaza, PAC 384
Springfield, IL 62703-5407
Phone: (217) 206-6083
E-mail: lkill2@uis.edu
URL: http://www.uis.edu/publichealth/
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