Employment prospect for MPH?

juillet
Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:16:08 +0000

Every school has different prerequisites for epidemiology. Many webpages don’t recommend any specific course of study, but I find Emory’s requirements and recommendations helpful: their MSPH applicants are required to have one course in calculus, and their MPH and MSPH applicants are required to have at least one college-level science course and one college-level math course (college algebra wouldn’t count, as that is not considered college-level). The most competitive applicants, Emory says, have at least 2 semesters of math (including calculus) and 2 semesters of science (biology, chemistry, or physics).

I would say for the greatest chance of success in epidemiology applications, your son should at minimum take calculus I and linear algebra, and perhaps calculus II. If your son doesn’t enjoy math, then epidemiology may not be a good choice for him because it is a quantitative field, although the mathematical techniques used are kind of different from your typical college math class like calculus. I do encourage an internship if he’s not strong in math and doesn’t feel like he could succeed; he may instead consider environmental health sciences or health policy and management or the social and behavioral sciences in public health/health behavior and health education.