Public health is one of those majors that often works best with another major/minor IMO. A major in geography, statistics, public policy, economics, Spanish (or any relevant language), etc. can complement public health quite nicely.
UC Irvine has a great Public Health Policy program!
University of Michigan Ann Arbor has it as well: https://sph.umich.edu/undergrad/
What I meant was that the pre-med requirements are heavy on science (1 year physics, biology, math, 2 years chemistry, including orgo). So if you major in a non-science, almost all of your electives will be filled with the pre-med requirements. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, just depends on what you want to accomplish in college.
Some students also do a one year post-bacc degree to fulfill premed requirements.
My D is interested in the Bama Public Health major as it offers a couple specialties including a track for preprofessional students with related electives to satisfy grad school prereqs - believe is is 12 free electives for this purpose. Would love to see more programs offer this flexibility. Anyways, may work for you. Good luck.
University of New Mexico has it. Population Health.
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Non-profits and research institutions are other good places to look for jobs in public health. Agree that a GIS certification and statistics classes would complement the degree.
Thank you so much everyone!!!
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I don’t go to high school in the US(though I’m a citizen) but I have an address in Oklahoma.
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What does that mean that you have an address in OK. Is that a home owned by your parents that they rent out?
Owning property in OK does not make you a resident for tuition purposes.
Why do you live in another country? If, for instance, your parent is in the military, and OK is the “home of record,” then OK would give you instate rates.
Tufts has a community health major.
http://ase.tufts.edu/commhealth/default.aspx
Here is a list of outcomes (jobs and grad school) by major. You can click on community health for each year to see what grads are doing. Community Health can be an interesting way to learn statistics which has wide applicability and good job prospects as an analyst in several industries. Several community health grads go directly to Tufts Med school each year. Statistics can be a benefit for med school as well.
http://students.tufts.edu/career-center/explore-careers-and-majors/outcomes-major
You don’t have to choose a major now, unless you are applying to a U that requires you to apply to a specific major.
Why not apply undecided (or in the case of most LACs and many Us, just apply, period), and begin your pre-med reqs and see what you enjoy and do well in?
@OHMomof2 I was actually considering this. Because I’m still a bit confused
As well you should be. If you haven’t taken college Bio. Chem, Biochem, Physics, math etc how can you know you will enjoy it, or that med school is for you?