Epidemiology at Temple or UMDNJ

Graduate School
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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>I am interested in applying to either Temple or UMDNJ's epidemiology program.
Do you guys have any experience with them? I know Temple combines theirs with biostat, so that is a bit of a turn off for me. How difficult would it be to gain admission to either?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>Just realize that Temple just has a program in Public Health whereas UMDNJ actually has a school of public health, which will provide plenty more resources in terms of dedicated faculty and staff for PH/Epi students.</p>

<p>Besides that, I would say that name recognition for Epi for both these school are on par with each other.</p>

<p>If I may ask, why did you narrow it down to just these two schools? If you’re going to look to be in the Philly area, Drexel has been doing a lot to improve their PH curriculum/USNEWS rankings lately. The tuition would be the same as either of these two schools, too.</p>

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<p>Oh wow, I totally forgot about Drexel. Thanks.</p>

<p>I don’t care about the program’s ranking, only that they are certified.</p>

<p>Would you know the level of difficulty to get into these programs? I finished with a 3.05 and I am worried it’s too low.</p>

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<p>Depends on your GRE. One can definitely make up for the other. </p>

<p>Here are the FAQs for Drexel:</p>

<p>[FAQs</a> | Drexel University School of Public Health](<a href=“http://publichealth.drexel.edu/Prospective_Students/FAQs/50/#applying]FAQs”>http://publichealth.drexel.edu/Prospective_Students/FAQs/50/#applying)</p>

<p>According to that site, 3.0GPA and 1000GRE is considered “competitive”, though the higher the better of course.</p>

<p>Also, here is the list from the CEPH (official accrediting agency for public health) of all the accredited schools and programs in public health in the US:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.ceph.org/pdf/Master_List.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ceph.org/pdf/Master_List.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Personally, I’d stick to only the schools of public health, just because the programs are typically housed in med schools of umbrella biosci departments, and don’t have the dedicated faculty/staff/resources to public health students (i.e., career services that don’t specialize in Epi).</p>