Public Health PhD students must complete a minimum requirement of 56 units of graduate coursework for the PhD degree, as well as specific program milestones such as the Qualifying Exam, Dissertation Proposal, and Dissertation Defense. Please note that PhD students should expect to be on campus 5 days per week for the first two years of the degree program.
While time to completion of the degree will vary, our expectation is that our students will complete the majority of their course work by the end of their second year, pass their Qualifying Exam by the middle of the third year, pass their Dissertation Proposal Defense by the beginning of their fourth year, and defend their dissertation at the end of their fifth year of study.
Normative Plan of Study for a Public Health Graduate Student |
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Spring Semester |
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Year One |
PH 201: Foundations in Public Health PH 203: Research Methods in Public Health PH 211: Biostatistics I PH 208a: Professionalization Seminar |
PH 212: Biostatistics II PH 202: Epidemiology PH 208b: Professionalization Seminar PH 2XX: Elective course |
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Year Two |
PH 2XX: Advanced Research Methods course PH 2XX: Elective course PH 2XX: Elective course PH 2XX: Elective course |
PH 2XX: Elective course PH 2XX: Elective course PH 2XX: Elective course PH 295: Research Units |
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Year Three |
PH 2XX: Elective or Advanced Methods PH 295: Research Units Qualifying Exam/Advance to Candidacy |
PH 297: Dissertation Research | ||
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Year Four |
PH 297: Dissertation Research Dissertation Proposal Defense |
PH 297: Dissertation Research | ||
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Year Five |
PH 297: Dissertation Research |
PH 297: Dissertation Research Defend dissertation and graduate. |
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Updated May 2024
