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Admissions Requirements

All applicants to the dual degree programs must apply and be accepted into each program separately.  Applicants are evaluated by each degree program in separate admissions processes.  The College of Public Health application requirements include the following:

  • Completion of the SOPHAS Express Public Health application and submission of the application fee.
  • Official transcripts reflecting an earned bachelor’s degree, with a 3.0 or higher grade point average for the last 60 undergraduate or the last 18 graduate/post-baccalaureate credit hours completed.
  • The GRE is optional for all applicants, but it is highly recommended for any applicant with below a 3.0 GPA from their previous coursework.
  • Three letters of recommendation from academic or professional references.
  • A resume reflecting one or more years of work/volunteer history related to health and/or human services.
  • A one page personal statement describing the applicant’s:
    • Interest in and potential for contributing to the field of public health
    • Career objectives
    • Self-assessment of computer, quantitative analysis, and personal skills and general preparation for succeeding in a public health graduate program

Curriculum

MPH CORE COURSES
CPH 500FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH3
CPH 504EPIDEMIOLOGY IN PUBLIC HEALTH3
CPH 506BIOSTATISTICS3
CPH 514PLANNING AND EVALUATION3
CPH 539PUBLIC HEALTH: LEADERSHIP AND ADVOCACY3
MBA CORE COURSES
BSAD 8060 People: Cultivating Skills for Leadership2
BSAD 8000 Business Ethics: Achieving Social Responsibility2
BSAD 8040 Business and Information Technology: Connecting People and Information2
BSAD 8150 Economics: Essential Concepts for Managers2
BSAD 8210 Accounting: Decisions and Consequences2
BSAD 8250 Organizational Behavior: Enhancing Human & Organizational Capabilities2
BSAD 8420 Marketing: Understanding Consumers and Markets2
BSAD 8630 Finance: Understanding Capital and Cash2
BSAD 8700 Business Analytics: Making Sense of Data2
BSAD 8720 Strategic Financial Management2
BSAD 8830 Strategy: Developing Sustainable Competitive Advantage2
MPH CONCENTRATION COURSES12 - 15
MPH & MBA CAPSTONE AND EXPERIENCE COURSES
BSAD 8800 MBA Project-Focused Capstone2
CPH 528APPLIED PRACTICE EXPERIENCE3
CPH 529CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE3
Total Credit Hours57 - 60

The College of Public Health normally requires 42 hours for the MPH degree. Students select an MPH area of concentration that best suits the student’s interest with the knowledge that some prerequisites courses may be required. The MPH requires 12 - 15 hours of concentration courses and 6 hours of service learning/capstone. The concentrations in the MPH program available for the MBA/MPH program are: Public Health Administration and Policy, Emergency Preparedness, Biostatistics, and Epidemiology. The Service Learning (three credit hours) and Capstone Experience (three credit hours) will follow the guidelines of the UNMC MPH Program as described in the College of Public Health Service-Learning/Capstone Experience Handbook. The objectives, components, details of assignment, advisors, timelines, and evaluation of student performance are to be formulated later by the student and his or her Capstone Committee.