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If so how was you experience achieving this degree?
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No but I really really wanted to do that before I got I before I got into IT.
With public health the sky really is the limit especially if you continue with graduate and doctorate degrees. My cousin who is a specialized doctor, actually sparked my interest to PH because you can do so much with it.
Working overseas for health orgs, private companies, hospital/clinical admin, consultant, etc
And obvious with extended education and experience you commanding 150k at least and upwards. Your making as much, or more as doctors without having to deal one on one with patients, fluids, etc
No but I really really wanted to do that before I got I before I got into IT.
With public health the sky really is the limit especially if you continue with graduate and doctorate degrees. My cousin who is a specialized doctor, actually sparked my interest to PH because you can do so much with it.
Working overseas for health orgs, private companies, hospital/clinical admin, consultant, etc
And obvious with extended education and experience you commanding 150k at least and upwards. Your making as much, or more as doctors without having to deal one on one with patients, fluids, etc
Not really. Biostaticians are the ones making the money, and they start around $80,000. A small percentage of PH professionals are making $150K. A safe average is $50-75K a year.
You're not going to be loaded, but you'll be on the lower end of the upper middle class.
The strange thing is most people in MPH programs are not competent statisticians. Most department hire a trained statisticians even for the epidemiology research.
I literally just did. I have my Bachelor's. What specific questions do you have?
I find that odd since the typical prerequisites for an MSPH in biostatistics is an undergraduate degree in mathematics. Epidemiology doesn't have a specific degree requirement, so that may explain why they're not the BEST at math.
Can you tell me of your experience in the field? What did the schooling mostly consist of?
Congrats
What planet are you living on?
Most people with MPH work in hospital administration but in a small capacity like patient liaison, patient educator or maybe as a research support. those are $40k a year job that you do not a public health degree for.
The jobs paying close to $100k requires you to augment that public health degree with some form of health care administration degree or decades of experience in administration.
Don't listen to naysayers, do your research. I was going to get my MPH but my Bachelors degree isn't in PH or Social work, and I don't have experience in that area so it would've been useless.
I have never seen an MPH program that had a specific bachelor's degree requirement nor an experience requirement.
Maybe you need to do your research. :
MPH programs are a dime a dozen and dozens of programs are now online.
Maybe you need to go back to school to improve your reading comprehension skills. I NEVER said that MPH degrees have Bachelors degree requirements, I said that my Bachelors didnt have anything to do with PH so it would've been useless for ME. Fact remains that GOOD graduate schools recommend that you have a Bachelors in PH or Social work AND that you have some work experience in PH in order to have better career opportunities when you graduate. Get your facts straight because the term 'requirement' wasn't used in my post. :
I would have to disagree with you on this one. The majority of universities with graduate programs do not have a social work or whatever requirement for MPHs. Any degree will suffice. The only field I saw where there were requirements, and rightly so, was biostatistics, environmental health and occasionally epidemiology. Environmental concentrations ask for science backgrounds or an undergrad in environmental studies, etc. Biostatistics asks for mathematics. Epidemiology sometimes asks for a background in science and math, but not all the time.
What universities are you speaking of, if you do not mind me asking?
Where are you guys getting requirements from?? Again, MPH degrees have no requirements. Recommendations and requirments aren't the same thing, in my response I also specifically said I wasn't referring to requirements. One of the schools I was referring to was the University of Maryland, ANYONE with a degree, good GRE scores and professor recommendations can apply. But for the MASTERS program they recommend some type of educational or professional experience in PH, by no means is it a requirement. I can apply right now and be accepted and my degree is in business, but that doesn't mean it will be useful towards my career goals.
Oh. I don't consider UMD to be a great school. When you say great, I'm thinking a top university. I've looked at their program since I used to live in MD and they're less strict than say: UCLA, Berkeley, UCD, etc. which actually do have requirements for some of the concentrations that I listed above.
The universities I'm interested have zero requirements minus a bachelors, so you're right in that aspect when you exclude top universities.
You can get an MBA with a concentration in Healthcare Management or a graduate certificate in public health.
The handful of people I know with MPH's wish they had gotten MBA's instead. These people went to Tulane, Emory, and other top state schools.
None of them did anything in the field and as I have mentioned numerous times before, degrees in careers that rely on public funding is a bad investment at the current time.
If people are getting foreclosed on left and right, that decreases property taxes and federal taxes paid because they sometimes don't have a damn job.
Decreased tax revenues = decreased vacancies in state, county, city, federal agencies and hiring freezes. Public health is subject to so many budget cuts its absurd, from a management and public safety perspective. Neighborhood clinics close all the time.
That goes for education, public administration, criminal justice, sociology, etc...the government is the largest employer of black people in most of the above fields. When the Fed is broke, the State is broke, the County is broke. Its a trickle down effect.
Unless you are into epidemiology and biostats like Satan said...the money and jobs just aren't there. I can't speak on nonprofits and international health agencies.
ALSO, I dont recommend big name schools. with an MPH you will most likely be working for a public agency or on with public ties, meaning that you will probably not be making 80K outta graduation so theres no need to go into crazy debt.
I almost didnt post, because the OP is looking for real info and not just a ton of yeah I like that question, but yeah I like that question!
I'm in an un related field, but Masters In Public Health was my dream.
I hope OP gets all the info she needs.