Can't decide between Pitt and PSU.

wgmcp101
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 00:54:47 +0000

Pitt is a no brainer for anything health related, all other things (like cost/setting) being relatively equal. The question is, does Pitt have a pure undergraduate program in health administration? Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health, is, well, a graduate school. It is also one of the best such schools in the nation.

If your dream job is to work for UPMC (which I think everyone realizes stands for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center), frankly, you’d probably be pretty stupid not to go to Pitt if you can get the training/degree that you want. UPMC has its flagship hospitals right on campus, and obviously, you have a much better “in” coming from Pitt with any sort of health science degree as UPMC helps fund all the university’s health science schools and has an intimate relationship with them. Not to be understated, while you are at Pitt, you can try to find some volunteer/ internship opportunities in UPMC while you are in school or go around the school of public health and try to start meeting people and figure out what kind of career moves you want to make. You are likely going to want to eventually get your MPH at some point anyway.