Overview
Key facts:
- The Health Education and Promotion programme is offered at the The University of Alabama.
- The 42-credit-hour MPH program provides a high quality, student-oriented, and health-equity-focused curriculum developed to deliver core public health competencies that emphasize the application of health education and promotion. Designed for eventual Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) accreditation, the curriculum offers education in the foundational areas of public health (health behavior, environmental health, epidemiology, biostatistics, and health services administration) and is tailored to train health promotion professionals to plan, implement, and evaluate programs to promote individual and population-based health. Upon program completion, students are eligible to take two national exams for professional certification: Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) exam and the Certified in Public Health (CPH) exam.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Theories of Health Behavior
- Health Promotion Techniques
- Planning Health Promotion Prog
- Program Eval In Hlth Promot
- Tech Research In Health
- Basic Epidemiology
- Biostatistics
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 12 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Credits
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Disciplines
Education Health Education View 93 other Masters in Health Education in United StatesAcademic requirements
English requirements
Other requirements
General requirements
- An online application form
- Application fee payment
- Statement of purpose
- Unofficial admission scores (GRE, GMAT, MAT or MCAT; if required by the department)
- Unofficial transcripts
- Letters of recommendation
- Language scores (non-native English speakers)
Tuition Fee
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International
31460 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 31460 USD per year during 12 months. -
National
31460 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 31460 USD per year during 12 months. -
In-State
11100 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 11100 USD per year during 12 months.
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