Hello,
I am deciding between UCSD and NYU’s MPH programs, and I was wondering if anyone had insight or suggestions for this decision. Thanks!
UCSD’s MPH program is brand new, so it’s hard to say, but the department it’s run out of is one of the best in the world and there are plans to aggressively grow a School of Public Health. If you’re more interested in an established program, NYU will be safer
Hmm, this is hard because it’s comparing an established and well-regarded MPH program (NYU’s; the change in status to an actual school of public health is new, but the program’s been around since the 1970s) to a brand-new one (UCSD’s). NYU also benefits from being in New York, a city brimming with public health and medicine resources and a VERY strong city department of health; it also has connections to researchers at the very good Columbia Mailman School of Public Health (lots of joint research projects and the like).
However, this is also a field where new programs are springing up all the time. UCSD is well known for medicine and well-reputed in that area, and they have existing faculty who are already doing research in the main public health subfields.
Is there a cost differential? If you’re in-state for California I’d go to UCSD, no questions asked.
If the cost is about the same, then I might choose NYU just because it’s already established. But if you knew with certainty that you wanted to stay on the West Coast for your career - particularly in Southern California - I might lean UCSD.