Schools with a health science major?

juillet
Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:28:25 +0000

Well, I can, but with some caveats.

First, some of your difficulty may be because of the name of the major. It’s not always called “health sciences” everywhere. Sometimes it’s called something else: public health, global health, community health, health and society, or just health. There is also the really closely related major of human development and family studies.

Second, most colleges don’t offer this as a major, BUT the building blocks of this major are often in the social and natural sciences. Some colleges offer it as a minor, which you can combine with a social science or natural science major. You can also create your own major in this area at schools that allow individualized majors and have the offerings for it.

You may also be in the somewhat-related major of science, technology, & society. Also, if you are potentially interested in SLP, you may be interested in majoring in communication disorders, which is a major at the undergrad level (often at larger universities). For occupational therapy, an interest might be kinesiology or exercise science.

Your state’s public universities offer a wealth of options:

Stony Brook University (Health Science)
Binghamton University (Human Development)
University at Albany (public health concentration)
SUNY Old Westbury (Health & Society)
SUNY New Paltz (Communications Disorders)
SUNY Fredonia (public health minor, exercise science minor)
SUNY Oneonta (Human Ecology, and a cooperative program with occupational therapy)
SUNY Plattsburgh (Communication Sciences & Disorders, Medical Technology, and Human Development and Family Relations)
Hunter College (Community Health)
Lehman College (Health Sciences, Exercise Science)
Brooklyn College (Health & Nutrition Sciences)
Queens College (Nutrition & Exercise Sciences; Family & Consumer Sciences; health education minor)

And some privates in the mid-Atlantic area:

Adelphi University (Exercise Science)
St. John’s University (Health and Human Services)
Yeshiva University (public health)
Hofstra University (Health Science, Health Education)
Syracuse University (Health & Exercise Science)
Ithaca College (several! Clinical Exercise science; a BS/DPT program; Exercise Science; Health Education; Health Sciences; and a health science and human performance pre-professional program).
St. Lawrence University (Exercise Science)
Clark University (public health minor)
Connecticut College (Human Development)
Fairfield University (Health Studies)
Boston University (Health Science)
Suffolk University (Health & Society)
Brandeis University (Health: Science, Society, and Policy)
Johns Hopkins University (Public Health Studies and Medicine, Science, and Humanities)
University of Rochester (they have a couple: Health, Behavior, & Society; Health Policy; Bioethics; Environmental Health; and Epidemiology)
Brown University (public health concentration)
Hampshire College (no majors, but you can build your own concentration, and the Five Colleges have a certificate program in Cultural, Health, and Science)