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With more than 40 majors to choose from, our curriculum offers you unparalleled opportunity to pick your path and find the right fit for you, whether you’re interested in Natural Sciences and Mathematics or Social Sciences, or Humanities like History and English are more your style. 

Many of our majors also offer opportunities for internships and co-ops both locally and nationally, study abroad and service learning, where you make real-world impact on your community.

If you’re not sure which major is right for you, you’re not alone. Many incoming students aren’t sure with path is the right one—which may be why many of our first-year students choose our Exploratory Studies Program. Through Exploratory Studies, you’ll learn more about what each major has to offer, and whether it’s right for you. 

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Why study Public Health?

Students who choose to complete a public health minor increase their awareness of emerging issues in public health, the social and behavioral aspects of preventing disease, environmental health concepts, the changing U.S. health care system and the monitoring of diseases in the community. Students from a wide variety of majors will find a Public Health minor attractive as it provides them with a basic understanding of each of the core areas of public health, introduces students to career opportunities and prepares students for admission to graduate programs in public health and other health-related programs. Students are able to select from a diverse offering of electives, both online and in the classroom, across multiple colleges as a part of the minor. The degree can be completed online, in-person or a combination of both.

Current baccalaureate majors can request to declare the minor by clicking here.

The Public Health minor is ideal for students who are in a baccalaureate or associate degree program in a health-related field, but may also appeal to students in other colleges who have an interest in public health, such as pre-law, urban planning, criminal justice, education, and landscape design, as well as others. By adding a public health minor, students increase their awareness of emerging issues in public health.  

Career Possibilities

The minor will introduce students to career opportunities and prepare students for admission to graduate programs in public health and other health-related programs. 

Public health career opportunities include health educator, health communication specialist, environmental health specialist, infectious disease specialist, diseaster preparedness coordinator and health services adminstrator.  

Minoring in Public Health

The minor is a collaborative effort spanning seven colleges. The College of Medicine will certify completion of the minor to award the program upon graduation. Students can complete coursework across the following partner colleges: College of Allied Health Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, College of Nursing, College of Medicine, and College of Pharmacy.  The University of Cincinnati regional campuses, UC Blue Ash and UC Clermont, are also a part of this collaboration. 

Major Maps

A total of 18 credit hours is required.  Students will complete three required core courses, which are essential to studies in public health, including Introduction to the field of Public Health, Introduction to Biostatistics, and Epidemiology courses.  Students are able to select from a diverse offering of electives, both online and in the classroom, across multiple colleges to complete the minor.  This will allow majors in online programs to pursue the minor, if interested. The interdisciplinary curriculum was intentionally designed to span multiple colleges and offer students the ability to tailor their minor electives to complement their major area of focus.  Students will complete three elective courses.  For more information about core courses and elective, see the Major Map.

Advising

For additional information about the minor, contact Michael Woodward, Public Health Advisor at Michael.Woodward@uc.edu or 513-558-1939.

 

Admission Requirements

Enrollment in the minor is restricted to current UC bachelor's degree seeking students from any major. Students can request to declare the minor by clicking here.

Accreditation

The University of Cincinnati and all regional campuses are accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.

Quick Facts

MIN in Public Health

Full-Time Program Duration

2.0 Years

Location

East Campus

Interest Areas:

Medicine & Health

Contact

Teacher-Dyer Complex 460D
Cincinnati, OH 45267-0552
Phone: (513) 558-1939
Michael Woodward
woodwawa@ucmail.uc.edu