Environmental Health Sciences

Program | Faculty | Master's | Doctoral | Courses

Website: www.umass.edu/sphhs/ehs/

The Environmental Health Sciences program combines the public health sciences of biostatistics, environmental health, and epidemiology with natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering. Students are prepared to provide a quantitative approach to measure and monitor the effects of environmental stress on human health. Environmental Health Sciences professionals meet the public health needs of society by developing and applying the modern tools available in industrial hygiene and environmental toxicology and risk assessment.

Admission Requirements for M.S. and M.P.H. Degree Programs

Applicants for admission to the Environmental Health Sciences program must meet the general admission requirements of the Graduate School, with an overall cumulative grade point average of 2.75 on a scale of 4.0. The department’s basic admission requirements are a grade point average of 3.0 on a scale of 4.0 in the following courses: two years of chemistry including organic chemistry, one year of physics, and one year of mathematics including calculus. Students with deficiences in any of these areas may be accepted provided that they make up the deficiency(s) without graduate credit. Other requirements are:

1. A bachelor’s degree or equivalent from any college or university of recognized standing.

2. Two letters of recommendation from persons in the field of the applicant’s academic major at the institution most recently attended. Applicants whose academic records go back more than five years may substitute other references, subject to departmental acceptance.

3. Two official transcripts of all previous university or college work (undergraduate and graduate).

4. Results of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), taken within five years of application. All applicants should have a transcript of their scores sent to the Graduate Admissions Office. No application will be complete until scores have been received. NOTE: Foreign students must submit their TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) scores as well.

5. Acceptance by the Environmental Health Sciences program and the Graduate Admissions Committee of the Graduate Council.

Application Deadlines: For Fall admission, completed applications should be submitted no later than February 1. Late applications will be accepted only if space is available.

M.P.H. Degree Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester

A Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) degree is offered at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester as part of the degree program of the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences. The curriculum is designed to enable health care professionals to earn this advanced degree while engaged in professional activities. Classes are scheduled in the early evening to accommodate working students. The courses cover a wide variety of topic areas in epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health sciences, health policy and management, community health education, research methods, and program planning and evaluation. The requirements for the M.P.H. degree include a total of 42 credits. All students are required to take 15 credits of core courses:

PUBHLTH 540
PUBHLTH 565
PUBHLTH 630
PUBHLTH 601
PUBHLTH 620

Students have the option of taking fourteen (3-credit) courses and a final oral review or twelve (3-credit) courses and a 6-credit supervised M.P.H. project. Courses are offered once a week during fall and spring semesters and two nights per week during two summer sessions that run for six weeks each.