Certificate in Infectious Disease Epidemiology Admission

ADMISSION

CERTIFICATE IN INFECTIOUS DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY

• APPLICATION DEADLINES
• ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
• APPLICATION PROCESS
• APPLICATION FORMS 

APPLICATION DEADLINES

All materials must be received by the application deadline to be considered for admission 

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ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

• Completion of the College of Public Health application and submission of an application fee.
• Official transcripts reflecting an earned bachelor’s degree, with a 3.0 or higher grade point average for the last 60 undergraduate or the last 18 graduate/post-baccalaureate credit hours completed.
  
  
  • Foreign Transcripts: Official transcripts or mark sheets of college level work not in English or in the standard U.S. grading scale must be sent to a credential evaluation service for translation.
    Transcripts must carry the signature of a responsible official in which the work was done and the seal of that institution, or must be certified true copies of the original records. If transcripts do not show the degree earned and the date on which it was conferred, official degree statements must also be provided
• Two letters of recommendation from academic or professional references (letters must be on professional/institutional letterhead and signed).
• A one-page personal statement describing the applicant’s:
  • Interest in and potential for contributing to the field of public health  and infectious disease
  • Career objectives
  • Self-assessment of computer, quantitative analysis, and personal skills and general preparation for succeeding in a public health certificate program
• All applicants whose primary language is not English or whose undergraduate degree is from a college or university outside of the United States are required to submit official Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) scores.
• Prerequisites:
  • Prior college-level mathematics or statistics courses and grades:
    • The student must have received the equivalent of at least a grade of B in a statistics course or college algebra or a more advanced mathematics course taken within five years of program application.
  • Prior college-level biology course and grades:
    • The student must have received the equivalent of at least a grade of B in a biology course taken within five years of program application.

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APPLICATION PROCESS

All application materials must be received by the application deadline. Please click the application process for full instructions on how to apply.

• Application Process

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APPLICATION FORMS

• Application Cover Sheet

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