The School’s education programs reflect its commitment to the scholarship of discovery, inter-professional and lifelong learning, and professional and academic teaching. While the School does not have an undergraduate program, each year School faculty instruct more than 3,000 undergraduate students in public health courses taken to fulfill the requirements of other degrees or as part of an undergraduate concentration in public health. Some two-thirds of its approximately 1,000 graduate students engage in nine Major programs offering professional study and the remaining one-third pursue master of science or doctoral training in five Graduate programs.
The School makes available to its graduate students dual degree opportunities in business, journalism, law, medicine, nursing, public policy, social work and veterinary medicine. And more than 100 students pursue post-baccalaureate certificates in public health core concepts and specialized training. Reflecting the School’s growth as a global educational force, each year some 10 to 20 percent of its total students are from other nations. Distance-learning and executive degree programs, made possible through digital technologies, enable the School to extend its instructional programs to working adult professionals, whose career, family obligations and distance from campus preclude coursework in traditional settings.
The School expects demand for its educational programs to remain strong in the coming decade. Interest in public health as a professional and scientific career continues to grow. New public health challenges, new policy initiatives and emerging areas of research can be expected to continue to spur interest in – and demand for – the latest public health knowledge.
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