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BS Public Health (Medicine Sciences) at University of California, San Diego

University of California, San Diego, United States

Programme overview

Bachelor of Science in Public Health with a concentration in medicine sciences, which is its own major. It gives pre-health and pre-medical students foundational training in public health and health science fields and allows some pre-health courses to count toward the degree.

Faculty: Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science  |  Department: Public Health  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: La Jolla, CA, United States

What you will study

Lower division (68 or 69 units) covers public health, biology, chemistry (CHEM 6A-C, 7L), natural sciences, calculus and quantitative methods. Upper division (48 or 52 units) covers five public health core disciplines, public health perspectives including PH 161, 12 units of medicine sciences electives and a capstone.

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Entry requirements

Selective major: after admission to UC San Diego, continuing students apply through the selective major process after completing PH 40, one biology course (BILD 1, 2 or 3), CHEM 6A and 6B, one statistics course and MATH 10A/20A and 10B/20B with grades of C- or higher; completion does not guarantee a place. This is a university-level process, not a programme-specific admission.

Apply through the official page: https://admissions.ucsd.edu/

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