B.S in Public Health

Make a Difference in the World

With a B.S. in Public Health, you'll prepare for a career that creates healthy communities through education, research and promotion of healthy environments and lifestyles. Also explore the minors below and the accelerated BS to MS degree program.

Earn a Master of Public Health (MPH) or Master of Science in Health Information Management

Make a difference in the world by improving human health. Our programs include:

Doctoral Degrees

Graduate Certificates

Public Health Certificate Programs

To apply or for more information, contact the undergraduate or graduate admissions office.

Meet Our Students

UMass Lowell student Iffat Farah poses next to a sign for the Lowell Community Health Center.
Iffat Farah ’21
Master of Public Health, Healthcare Management

Iffat Farah works as a community workforce program coordinator for the Lowell Community Health Center.

The care and attention that I got from my professors were priceless to me.
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Mallory Hillard ’11
Community Health & Sustainability

Thanks to UMass Lowell, Hillard says she's found true satisfaction and happiness in her career and in herself.

Perhaps the single most important opportunity my education provided was ‘real-world’ interactions.
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Alytah Noum seated outside of Coburn Hall at UMass Lowell
Alytah Noum '23
Public Health

For her practicum course experience, Alytah Noum was hired by the Lowell Community Health Center as a community health worker.

I have had so many valuable experiences in this internship that will contribute to my career development in public health.
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Portrait of Tara Lynch in glasses looking away from the camera
Tara Lynch '15, '19
Psychology, Public Health

Tara Lynch's experience during her undergraduate psychology program practicum working with a community agency to improve outcomes for rape survivors led her to pursue a Master of Public Health.

Designing studies, analyzing risk factors and human behaviors – that's what I'm doing right now, and it's what I love.
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