NC To Offer Undergraduate Major In Public Health
Newberry College has announced its newest undergraduate major in public health. The program will launch with the fall 2024 semester.
Public health focuses on protecting and improving the health of populations. This includes investigating health problems and hazards in communities, developing policies and plans, educating the public on health matters, ensuring quality health services, and researching the effectiveness of health interventions.
The program will be offered in a hybrid format, with core education courses offered on-campus and major curriculum available online from experts in the public health field. Students will benefit not only from in-depth technical knowledge, but also from a versatile foundation in the liberal arts in Newberry’s student-centered campus community.
“The needs our communities now face for qualified health care professionals are ever-increasing, especially in the field of public health, and Newberry College is dedicated to meeting this need,” said Dr. Jerry Alewine, dean of nursing & health sciences. “The public health program, in its hybrid format, is designed to meet not only the industry where it is, but the students where they are. Rest assured that our students are on the cutting edge of a field that changes by the day.”
Coursework will encompass disciplines such as epidemiology, biostatistics, health services administration, environmental health, social and behavioral sciences, and health policy.
Graduates of the program will be prepared to enter a lucrative and growing field, with job possibilities in hospitals and other medical facilities, nonprofit and government organizations, and research, among others. In South Carolina, professionals with bachelor’s degrees in public health earn an average of $69,627 per year, according to ZipRecruiter.
The major in public health joins an expansive array of health-related offerings at Newberry, including exercise science and human performance, health care management, health science, neuroscience, nursing, nutrition, RN-to-BSN, and South Carolina’s only bachelor’s-level program in respiratory therapy.
To apply or learn more about Newberry’s public health program, please visit newberry.edu.
Newberry College has announced its newest undergraduate major in public health. The program will launch with the fall 2024 semester.
Public health focuses on protecting and improving the health of populations. This includes investigating health problems and hazards in communities, developing policies and plans, educating the public on health matters, ensuring quality health services, and researching the effectiveness of health interventions.
The program will be offered in a hybrid format, with core education courses offered on-campus and major curriculum available online from experts in the public health field. Students will benefit not only from in-depth technical knowledge, but also from a versatile foundation in the liberal arts in Newberry’s student-centered campus community.
“The needs our communities now face for qualified health care professionals are ever-increasing, especially in the field of public health, and Newberry College is dedicated to meeting this need,” said Dr. Jerry Alewine, dean of nursing & health sciences. “The public health program, in its hybrid format, is designed to meet not only the industry where it is, but the students where they are. Rest assured that our students are on the cutting edge of a field that changes by the day.”
Coursework will encompass disciplines such as epidemiology, biostatistics, health services administration, environmental health, social and behavioral sciences, and health policy.
Graduates of the program will be prepared to enter a lucrative and growing field, with job possibilities in hospitals and other medical facilities, nonprofit and government organizations, and research, among others. In South Carolina, professionals with bachelor’s degrees in public health earn an average of $69,627 per year, according to ZipRecruiter.
The major in public health joins an expansive array of health-related offerings at Newberry, including exercise science and human performance, health care management, health science, neuroscience, nursing, nutrition, RN-to-BSN, and South Carolina’s only bachelor’s-level program in respiratory therapy.
To apply or learn more about Newberry’s public health program, please visit newberry.edu.
