Top schools, public health

[Quinoline]

Do top research schools show any disfavor to applicants who express a strong interest in going into a primary care field or working in public health, with no research ambitions? Are they solely interested in pumping out top notch academics?

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[Banco]

Not necessarily. Research is highly valued, however, and most do have explicit missions of churning out academics.

Either way, if you have no interest in research/academia, it probably doesn't make sense to apply to "top" research schools - unless your interests in public health/primary care is supported by the school (Columbia comes to mind).

 

[LizzyM]

Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Hopkins, UCSF, Emory to name a few top med schools with public health schools. too.