Study Public Health Online at University at Albany, a Master degree offered at its main campus in Albany, United States of America. This Full Time program is delivered on campus in English and takes approximately 2 years to complete. Students benefit from a structured learning experience designed to build both theoretical knowledge and practical experience. The next intake is scheduled for August 19, 2027.
Learn to develop, implement, and evaluate public health interventions through a fully online, flexible MPH program with a concentration in public health practice.
You can earn your degree part-time from anywhere, receiving the same rigorous education you'd receive on our campus.
Accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, the online MPH offers diverse electives that support career advancement.
Learning objectives that UAlbany students are expected to attain through their course of study within their academic program.
Your academic transcripts must be provided in the original language, accompanied by certified translations into English.
If you attended an institution where instruction was conducted in English and your transcript is in English, then that transcript is sufficient. However, you must also provide official documentation on the language of instruction.
(Official copies of your transcripts will be required upon admission. For instructions, please visit our Apply to a Degree or Certificate Program page.)
Students from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan
We require official and complete individual mark skeets for each examination attempt, including subsidiary exams.
These documents must be issued by the University Registrar or Controller of Examinations.
We will only accept photocopies of your mark sheets when they are attested by the University Registrar or Controller of Examinations and placed in a sealed, stamped envelope that is sent directly to the Graduate School.
We will accept a Provisional Certificate of Degree or Degree Certificate as proof of degree completion.
Students from China
We require both the Graduate Certificate and the Bachelor’s Degree Certificate for proof of earned degree.
Students from Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Moldova
We will accept apostilled photocopies of your official academic record, in lieu of those records being officially sent to us by the institution of higher education.
Although not required, we accept WES Evaluations sent directly to UAlbany from WES.
A transcript evaluation allows the review committee to correctly compare the quality of your school, coursework and grades with all other applicants.
Other evaluation services can only be used if they require official documents directly from the institution of higher education, not the student, to evaluate coursework.
An official document showing award of degrees is required.
If you do not submit acceptable documents showing proof of a U.S. bachelor’s degree or its equivalent with your admissions application, UAlbany must receive official proof of degree by the end of your program’s first semester. Otherwise, a hold will be placed on your account, preventing you from registering for the following term.
We suggest you have all required elements for your application in place before you apply.
Please read the Instructions for Application Materials below for detailed information on each required material.
Gather these general application materials:
Transcripts of all post-secondary schools attended
Statement of Background and Goals
Resume
Graduate Assistantship/Fellowship Application
Your recommenders’ names and email addresses
Any program-specific application materials listed above (such as standardized test scores, a writing samples, a portfolio, etc.)
Most tuition scholarships, assistantships and fellowships are offered and administered by academic departments. Please contact your program for information on eligibility and availability.
You will have the option to apply for an assistantship or fellowship when you fill out your admissions application using the application portal. For more information, visit our Funding Graduate Studies page.
Eligible students can also apply for a funding program that supports our diversity (such as the Graduate Opportunity Program and/or Carson Carr Graduate Diversity Fellowship) by submitting the appropriate application materials with their admissions application.
Other types of financial aid — including federal loans, work-study, state aid and other types of assistance — are also available to graduate students. We encourage our students to file the FAFSA each year, if they are eligible.
Please review these instructions for applying for financial aid as a graduate student.
International students: If you plan to attend UAlbany on an F1 student visa, you must document your ability to meet all expenses while attending UAlbany by submitting a financial affidavit and financial documents. Please review our Information for International Applicants page for more information.
Many graduate programs require applicants to submit standardized test scores, such as the GRE or GMAT. Use the search bar above to determine if your program requires standardized test scores.
International students: If your native language is not English, you’ll have to submit English language proficiency exam scores. Please review our Information for International Applicants page for more information.
Applicants cannot submit photocopies of test results. It can take one to three weeks for official scores to be received from the testing services and processed by the University, so be sure to request your test scores well in advance of the application deadline.
Create an account within our application portal, which you will use to submit your application and application fee. Please see the "Using the Application Portal" instructions below for additional information.
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