School at a Glance
Established: | 1944 |
Current Dean (Interim): | Timothy Beebe |
Rankings: | #6 public school of public health; #12 overall Top 5% of all schools and programs of public health #2 Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) program #9 biostatistics PhD program |
Students: | 1,025 |
Alumni: | 12,354 |
Faculty: | 123 full-time |
Avg. grant funding per faculty: | $1,118,546 |
Academic Divisions: |
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Degrees Programs: | 19 Graduate degrees (15 master’s and 4 doctoral) |
Research Centers: | 23 |
School Highlights |
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Proven Impact
Our research has led to (among many innovations):
- Effective COVID-19 treatments.
- Acknowledgement of the cancer-causing effects of vaping.
- Lowering of the age for colonoscopies.
- Verification of new treatment plans for people with HIV (saving millions of lives).
- Legislation that allows Medicaid payment for services from a certified doula for pregnant women in Minnesota
- Legislation that requires all new and remodeled buildings to be fully accessible to people with disabilities
- National Minor’s Consent to Health Services Act of 1971
- First comprehensive definition of childhood abuse and neglect
- First model to predict probability of complications from radiation therapy
- the first report to show high rates of concussions associated with youth football players (1983)
- First city-wide ban of cigarette vending machines in the U.S. (1989)
- FDA-proposed restrictions of tanning bed use by people 18 years of age and younger
- Changes in the care and treatment of HIV-positive people worldwide based on the SPH global START trial
- Development of the Minnesota Model used nationwide to track foodborne illness outbreaks
- Development of the Minnesota Code to read electrocardiograms in a universally applicable and understandable way
- Mediterranean Diet
2022 Graduating Student Profile
Overview
Total number of graduates: | 368 |
Female: | 76% |
Male: | 31% |
International students: | 7% |
Graduates by degree
MHA: | 58 |
MPH: | 225 |
MS: | 35 |
PhD: | 28 |
Certificate recipients | 22 |
2022 Incoming Student Profile
Total number of students: | 324 |
Average age: | 27 |
Age range: | 21-55 |
Female: | 73% |
Male: | 27% |
American Indians and students of color: | 27% |
International students: | 25% |
Incoming students by degree
MHA: | 38 |
MPH: | 195 |
MS: | 46 |
PhD: | 35 |
Certificate recipients | 10 |