DrPH in Public Health

With the flexibility to learn from anywhere worldwide, students in the Public Health program will join a community of peers and renowned faculty en route to a remarkable educational experience.

Curriculum

The UIC DrPH Program curriculum is organized around a collection of leadership skills that are most called upon to generate adaptive leadership. These include specific skills that directly lead to leadership development and other research and practice skills that are needed to inform an adaptive challenge.

The UIC DrPH Program employs a research approach that emphasizes systems thinking; novel and applied research designs; mixed methods; and engaged scholarship that seeks to meet the needs of practice challenges and intends to inform or impact an adaptive problem, thereby contributing to the evidence base of public health practice.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

• Biostatistics
• Quantitative Methods for Leadership in Public Health
• Epidemiology Principles & Methods
• Public Health Leadership Seminar
• DrPH Integrative Methods Seminar
• Leadership in Public Health Policy Development
• Personal Leadership Development
• Public Health Leadership Tools
• Public Health

Admission requirements

Academic requirements

• GRE: Required

English requirements

• TOEFL iBT: 80
• PTE Academic: 54
• IELTS: 6.5

Other requirements

General requirements

• Complete the UIC supplemental application and supplemental fee: UIC requires a brief supplemental application and non-refundable supplemental application fee ($70 for Domestic and International applicants).
• Complete the SOPHAS application and fee. The documents in steps 3 – 5 will all be uploaded via SOPHAS.
• Personal Statement, uploaded via SOPHAS. It is generally recommended to keep the statement to 500-800 words and to focus on your interests/experiences in public health and the program you are applying to specifically, your goals with the degree, and why you would be successful in the program. For students applying to research focused programs, the personal statement should also address potential research interests.
• Resume or CV, uploaded via SOPHAS.
• Three letters of recommendation, uploaded via SOPHAS.
• Transcripts.

Tuition Fees

• International: 13,076 AUD / year (≈ 9,102 USD / year)
• Out-of-State: 13,076 AUD / year (≈ 9,102 USD / year)
• Domestic In-State: 6,275 AUD / year (≈ 4,368 USD / year)