MS Public Health at University of Illinois Chicago

Programme overview

The MS in Public Health Sciences is a thesis-only research degree with a Health Policy and Administration concentration; the Public Health Informatics secondary concentration is suspended from Fall 2025.

Faculty: School of Public Health | Duration: Varies by concentration: 40 hours (Health Policy and Administration), 48 (Public Health Informatics, admission suspended) | Study mode: full-time | Location: Chicago, IL, United States

What you will study

22 hours of school-wide core including Biostatistics I, Introduction to Epidemiology, Foundations and Determinants of Public Health and 8 hours of thesis research, plus 22 hours in Health Policy and Administration including health economics and empirical methods.

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Entry requirements

Programme: major in biological, physical or social sciences preferred; at least 3.00/4.00; GRE General with combined verbal and quantitative at least 300; three letters; personal statement on research, career goals and reasons for the MS. International applicants: minimum English scores TOEFL iBT 80 (reading 19, listening 17, speaking 20, writing 21) for exams before 21 Jan 2026 or 4.5 overall on the new scale, IELTS Academic 6.5 (6.0 each section), PTE Academic 54, Duolingo 130.

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Graduate and professional programmes admit for Fall, Spring and Summer terms depending on the programme; applications for Fall 2027, Spring 2028 and Summer 2028 are expected to open on August 1, 2026.

Graduate and professional application deadlines are set per programme, with separate deadlines for domestic and international applicants for most non-online programmes; optional earlier priority, recommended or fellowship dates apply to both. Applications are made through the UIC graduate application or a centralized application service for some professional programmes.

Apply through the official page: https://grad.uic.edu/admissions/

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