University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health, Dept. of Health Services Policy and Management Feb. 18, 2007

Master of Public Health (MPH)

Accredited by the Council on Education in Public Health (CEPH).

This 48-semester-hour program emphasizes the management of public health agencies and public sector health services. Full-time students who start in the Fall graduate in December of the following year.

Admissions - Conditional Admits - Curriculum - Dual Degree Programs - Academic Standards - Contact

Admissions

Apply online through the Association of Schools of Public Health's SOPHAS system. Please also send an e-mail with your contact information.

Curriculum

The curriculum is 48 hours.
Recommended sequence of the courses below for full-time MPH students All courses listed are 3 hours, except for the residency, which is 6 hours.

School of Public Health MPH Core, 15 hours

BIOS 700 Biostatistics
ENHS 660 Concepts of Environmental Health Science
EPID 700 Epidemiology
HSPM 700 Approaches and Concepts in Health Administration
HPEB 700 Public Health Education Concepts

Management Courses, 18 hours

HSPM 712 Health Economics
HSPM 713 Information Systems
HSPM 714 Perspectives on Community Health Organizations
HSPM 716 Quantitative Methods in Health Administration
HSPM 730 Health Care Finance
HSPM 791 Organizational Behavior

HSPM 715, Community Assessment and Delivery of Health Care Services
One of the following courses in planning and policy

HSPM 707 Rural Health Policy or
HSPM 710 History of Public Health or
HSPM 711 Health Politics or
HSPM 718 Health Planning or
HSPM J772 International Health

Elective
HSPM 798, Public Health Residency, 6 hours

Here again is a link to the recommended sequence of these courses for full-time MPH students.

Continuing students who matriculated before Fall 1999 have a 39-hour curriculum which does not require HSPM 715, HSPM 725, or the course in planning/organizational behavior/policy.

Dual Degree Programs

There are also two dual degree programs: the Dual Degree Program in Nursing and Public Health Administration, a 51 or 54 hour program for nursing baccalaureates, conducted jointly with the College of Nursing, which leads to an MN-MPH or MS-MPH degree; and theDual Degree Program in Social Work and Public Health Administration, an 81 hour program conducted jointly with the College of Social Work, which leads to an MSW-MPH degree. (These hours may be revised upward beginning Fall 1999.)

Academic Standards

The University requires that graduate level students maintain academic standards as outlined in the USC Graduate School Bulletin. A graduate student's average on all courses attempted must be at least a B (3.0 on a 4 point system). Students with an accumulation of grades of C+or below on graduate course work are suspended from degree candidacy, pending review by the Department and the Graduate School.

Contact

For further information about this program, please contact , phone: (803)777-7417.

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