Overview

Concerned about the prevalence of diabetes, lack of safe water supplies, emerging infectious diseases, cancer, or the widespread use of prescription drugs? Inspired by the debates over health care legislation? Want to take a role in confronting the monumental health challenges facing undeveloped nations?

With a degree in Public and Community Health program at Ithaca College, you’ll be ready to help people make sense of conflicting societal messages about how best to eat, live, work, and exercise, or to help governments, nonprofit organizations, and communities adopt more ethical, fair, and cost-effective public health policies.

Depending on your career and intellectual interests, you’ll customize your studies with a program, policy, or planned interdisciplinary combination (PIC) in health emphasis.

Key Features

If you’re interested in working at the state, national, or global level, choose the policy emphasis; classes like Food and Society, International Health Issues, Economics of Health, and War, Hunger, and Genocide, as well as writing and politics courses, will teach you to advocate legislation, develop program policy, and help shape rules around public and community health issues.

The PIC emphasis allows you to immerse yourself in a specific niche -- health in marginalized populations and women’s health are just two examples. You’ll work with an adviser to design your own 24-credit specialty with a mix of courses from within and outside the department.

If you aspire to advanced or additional study, such as a master’s degree in public health or an advanced nursing degree, you’ll be well prepared; courses taken in the major may even satisfy some of the requirements for these postgraduate programs.

All majors do an internship in a community health organization, government agency, or nonprofit, which gives them firsthand experience in a health profession they may ultimately choose as a career: grant writer, teacher, researcher, manager, organizer, advocate, policy maker, analyst, administrator, activist, or international relief worker.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Public Health

Critical Health Issues

Epidemiological Approaches to Disease Prevention and Control

Health Communication

Human Disease

Global Health

Health Research and Analysis

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-01-20 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-11-01 00:00:00
Starting 2027-08-24 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-02-01 00:00:00

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Spring Admission: priority consideration

Language

English

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Ithaca, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

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Other requirements

General requirements

The Financial Aid Application in IC Connect.

An official secondary school transcript that displays courses and grades for all years of secondary school attended. Applicants must also submit official leaving exam results and official transcripts from all colleges and/or universities attended, if applicable.

All documents written in a world language must be accompanied by a certified English translation. Please note that both documents are required—the original in your first language and the English translation.

A letter of recommendation is optional. If submitted, it must be from the principal, school head, or college counselor, sent directly from your school to Ithaca College.

Proof of English proficiency

SAT or ACT with Writing test results (optional)

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

56752 USD / year

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Out-of-State

56752 USD / year

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Domestic

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In-State

56752 USD / year

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Living costs

Ithaca

United States

1128 - 2460 USD / month

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