Applicable only to students admitted during the 2013-2014 academic year.

M.P.H. for Health Professionals Program

Health and allied professionals who are unable to pursue a degree program during their regular working hours may earn the M.P.H. degree by completing coursework in intensive summer sessions and in extended weekend sessions during the academic year. Courses are taught by the faculty of the School of Public Health.

Admission

Program Name

Master of Public Health for Health Professionals

This is a specialized weekend program for health professionals with three years’ professional experience in health. Information regarding the Executive MPH and the full time MPH appear separately.

Address

36-078 CHS
Box 951772
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772

Phone

(310) 794-7500

Email

sagoo@ph.ucla.edu

Leading to the degree of

M.P.H.

Admission Limited to

Fall

Deadline to apply

April 1st

GRE (General and/or Subject)

GRE: General

Letters of Recommendation 

3, two from former professors and one from an employer; if no employer, three from former professors

Other Requirements

In addition to the University’s minimum requirements and those listed above, all applicants are expected to submit a statement of purpose.

Health and allied professionals who are unable to pursue a degree program during their regular working hours may earn the MPH degree by completing coursework in intensive summer sessions and in extended weekend sessions during the academic year. Courses are taught by the faculty of the School of Public Health. The department of Community Health Sciences offers the M.P.H. for Health Professionals program with concentration in health promotion and health education.

Applicants are expected to fulfill the minimum overall requirements for admission to the MPH program. In addition, they must have at least three years of professional experience or the full-time equivalent in health.

Advising

An adviser is appointed for each new master’s student by the head of the department. Student and adviser together agree upon a study list for each academic quarter and any subsequent alterations must be approved by both the adviser and the Associate Dean of Student Affairs. Students are expected to meet with their advisers each quarter.

An adviser is responsible for the student’s academic progress. Progress is evaluated on an ongoing basis. At the end of each quarter, the Associate Dean of Student Affairs reviews academic listings of students and notifies them and the advisers when the cumulative grade-point average is below 3.0. Advisers review each case with their advisees and make recommendations to the Associate Dean of Student Affairs for continuance or dismissal. Students who wish to change advisers must file a petition which must be approved by the new adviser, the department chair, and the Associate Dean for Student Affairs.

Areas of Study

Community Health Sciences offers a concentration in health education/promotion.

Foreign Language Requirement

None.

Course Requirements

Community Health Sciences

The MPH | HP degree program is an executive-style program for people with at least three years of work experience in the health care field. It is a two-year program requiring 60 units and a masters project. All students are required to complete Community Health Sciences 210, 211A-211B, 213, 281, 282, 292, 400, 482, 487, and M287. Students are also required to complete one course from each of the public health departments: Biostatistics 100A, Epidemiology 100, Health Policy and Management and Environmental Health Sciences 100.

In lieu of field training, students are required to complete a Master’s Project. The Master’s Project gives students an opportunity to apply knowledge and skills gained through coursework to a specific problem of significance in the field of health education and health promotion. This project must include original work. It is completed over a one-year period and represents 8 units (CHS 400 & CHS 482) of work. It can describe original research, design of an intervention, an evaluation design or other work. The student and supervising faculty member (Project Supervisor) negotiate the nature and parameters.

Courses taken for S/U grading may not be applied toward the degree requirements. Students must maintain an average of no less than 3.0 (B) in all courses required or elected during graduate residence at the University of California.

Teaching Experience

Not required.

Field Experience

None.

Comprehensive Examination Plan

Students must pass a departmental comprehensive examination. Students may be reexamined once. The aim of the examination, as a culminating experience, is to assess the student’s ability to select theories, methods, and techniques from across the content matter of a field, integrate and synthesize knowledge, and apply it to the solution of public health problems.

Thesis Plan

None.

Time-to-Degree

From graduate admission to award of the degree, normal progress is two years of intensive summer sessions and extended weekend sessions.