<p>I haven't been on this forum in about two years so I figured I would come back and answer some questions from the perspective of a graduating senior. To give you some background, I am a public health major and starting my master's degree in public health after this semester. I have studied abroad in South Africa and went on a summer trip to Ghana, if anyone has specific questions about that. I have been in a few clubs, held several campus jobs, and currently live off campus. So if you have any questions, ask away!</p>
<p>My daughter is a sophomore in high school and is extremely interested in Tulane’s PH department. It sounds perfect for her…I have lots of questions, but I don’t even know where to start. Can you PM me? :)</p>
<p>Hello mcel123,</p>
<p>I’ll be a freshman at Tulane in the fall and I’m very interested in the Public Health program. What were some of your favorite classes in the program? What classes were particularly hard? Is it a popular major at Tulane? Mostly boys/girls? Sorry so many questions- I’m just very excited and would love to hear about your overall experience with it!! Any insight would be great. Thank you </p>
<p>mcel, I’d love to hear more about your studies in Africa, too! And do you have a chance to do any kind of research as an undergrad?</p>
<p>And congrats to meerkat! I’d like to hear about how you made your choice, too.</p>
<p>My D is actually a PH major at Tulane, and is exploring the 4+1 program with her advisor. It appears the advisor is relatively new -but the message D is getting is that it really isn’t a 4+1 program at all, more like 4+2. And also, enrolling in that program now, as a junior, would mean she wouldn’t graduate with a Bachelors after the 4 years.</p>
<p>Does that all sound accurate?</p>
<p>My daughter is a PH major. As a junior, she is now applying for the 4 plus 1 program. She has been a PH major since freshman year and in fact she will graduate next year with a Bachelor’s and if she is accepted into the program will have a Master’s after one year. Maybe it depends on whether the student has fulfilled all the requirements by senior year?</p>
<p>old87green - I think all these 4+1 programs can be done in 5 years, but doing that depends on having the right set of courses throughout, by which I mean that if one decides rather late that they want to do the 4+1 they might not have taken the needed courses in time to get them all done in 5 years. Also if the 5th year involves a thesis (some tracts do and some don’t) then it depends on how that progresses. Often thesis work tends to run longer than anticipated, and again if one knows early on that they want to do the 4+1 program, they can start their thesis research earlier than the 5th year.</p>
<p>I haven’t heard of 4+2 being too common, but I have heard of 4+1.5 happening a fair amount, due to both of the above factors.</p>
<p>(Cross posted with Vitrac)</p>