Overview

Saint Francis University offers a Public Health degree embedded in the liberal arts tradition, emphasizing personal and professional ethics, and based upon the University’s nationally-recognized Franciscan mission.

Key Features

In addition, we offer a multitude of tracks, allowing you to specialize your public health degree to receive either a Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts.

You will learn to understand how people make decisions about their health and using that knowledge, you can support them in making healthy changes.

You can also help people navigate the complex health system, answer questions about health insurances, design health programs, manage projects, and interpret and translate scientific information for the public.

You will become an expert in identifying valid health data and effective programs, compiling and writing grants, making complex decisions, solving health-puzzles, and creating health education and marketing materials like movies, flyers, posters and more.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Public Health
Concepts of Health and Disease
Epidemiology
Health Promotion/Disease Management
Public Health Interventions: Program Design and Evaluation
Strategies in Health Policy and Law
Global Health
Leading with Care
Public Health Rotation
Capstone Project in Applied Learning

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-08-25 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-06-30 00:00:00 , International
- Apply before 2026-08-01 00:00:00 , National
Starting 2027-01-12 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-11-15 00:00:00 , International
- Apply before 2027-01-01 00:00:00 , National

Language

English

Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Altoona, United States

Disciplines

Public Health View 913 other Bachelors in Public Health in United States

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Academic requirements

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

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

Saint Francis University Online Application - Fee waived

The Common Application - Fee waived

Secondary/High School Transcripts evaluated for US equivalency and notarized English translations

SAT/ACT scores;

TOEFL/IELTS scores;

Copy of passport photo page.

Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

International Applies to you

Applies to you

Non-residents

44600 USD / year

≈ 44600 USD / year
Out-of-State

44600 USD / year

≈ 44600 USD / year
Domestic

Applies to you

In-State

44600 USD / year

≈ 44600 USD / year

Living costs

Altoona

United States

1000 - 1500 USD / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

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Scholarships Information

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Available Scholarships

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