DPBHLTH-BA - Public Health, BA

UNT Dallas’s Public Health degree offers a broad-based and interdisciplinary curriculum designed to prepare students for a range of public health occupations. The Bachelor of Arts program in Public Health is an ideal degree for students interested in careers where they can influence the health and well-being of their communities, including health education, research, health administration, and policy development.

Public Health students from UNT Dallas can take advantage of the UNT Health Science Center (UNTHSC) Public Health Certificate online program. The course credits taken to complete the Public Health graduate certificate at UNTHSC can apply to the bachelor degree in public health here at UNT Dallas. 

Benefits of this program include:

• Up to 15 credits that will count toward both the bachelors and graduate certificate.

• Convenient online course delivery.

• Certificate courses with a grade of “B” or better qualify for transfer into the Masters of Public Health (MPH) degree* at UNTHSC.

*Admission to the MPH program is not guaranteed to certificate students.

Eligible UNT Dallas students must meet the following criteria:

• Current Public Health student at UNT Dallas

• A grade of “B” of better in PBHL 4310 - Epidemiology   

• Minimum 72 undergraduate credit hours completed

• Cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher

• Approval by the UNT Dallas Program Liaison (Dr. Corron Sanders)

Contact Dr. Corron Sanders at Corron.Sanders@untdallas.edu for information on how to apply for the graduate Public Health Certificate program at UNTHSC.

Program Coordinator (Public Health, BS): Dr. Corron Sanders, Phone: 972-338-1797, Email: Corron.Sanders@untdallas.edu