09/18/2022
5-year Combined BA/MS or BS/MS Program in Global Health
The Global Health Bachelors-Masters Program provides a pathway for undergraduate students interested in and passionate about global health to obtain the skills necessary to enter careers in the global health space. This program represents a partnership with the undergraduate major in Health: Science, Society, and Policy (HSSP) and the Global Health Policy and Management (GHPM) degree program at the Heller School.
Students apply in the spring of their junior year through the Heller admissions process, preferably by March 1 but no later than June 1. Admitted applicants take three Heller GHPM core requirements HS 236a International Health Systems and Development (4 credits), HS 229f International Health Financing (2 credits), and HS 239f Intersectionality and Bioethics (2 credits) in the senior year. [Note: the latter two courses are offered as half-semester modules in the spring, so students are only required to take the equivalent of one full semester course per term.] These courses may count toward the undergraduate major in HSSP as Focal Area C or general electives. They do not count toward graduation requirements toward the GHPM MS degree, although they allow students room in their schedule to take additional electives. Accepted students will normally be expected to maintain a minimum GPA of 3.25 and a grade of B or better in the required courses.
Through partnerships, the GHPM program will help secure a summer internship (paid or unpaid, minimum 55 hours) for admitted students between undergraduate and graduate years. These internships count toward fulfilling two credits of electives that count toward graduation requirements for the graduate degree. Students will pay undergraduate tuition through their senior year and graduate with a bachelors degree (BA or BS, per HSSP requirements). In their fifth year, students will pay Heller tuition (however, as a Brandeis alum, Heller guarantees a 50% tuition scholarship for students accepted into the program), and, assuming adequate academic progress, will graduate with a Masters of Science in Global Health Policy and Management.
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The Heller MS degree is a nine-month master’s program focused on health systems strengthening and global health policy, housed at a top-ranked school of social policy and management. Our program provides students with the skills to become impactful policymakers, managers in organizations and gover...
