MPH or M.S.?

[hughesn2]

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Hello, I am still relatively new to the MPH outlook. The reason why is more of that my major and my advisers in my Natural Science college at Michigan State tends to push us more towards MD, DO, or PA school instead of talking to us about any Masters Program. About the last 6 weeks or so I realized I really don't want to be a doctor and researched an MPH program very well and it seems much more intriguing to me than going to Podiatry med school and hope for the residency shortage to get better. But enough of my past and reasons for now...

I love mathematics, despite being a Physiology major student, and the Bio-statistics sounds very intriguing at the MPH program level, but the issue I have is whether it would be able to fulfill most job requirements as compared to an M.S. I just wonder whether most statistics jobs would much rather employ someone with the masters of science in Bio-statistics over an MPH in Bio-stats. I don't know if any of you would be able to answer this for me whether the outlook is.

 

[hughesn2]

Another issue for me is that I still need to take the GRE and I am actually graduating in December. Thus, I plan on taking the GRE in January. I have researched the application due date for all of the SOPHA MPH programs and only a few would cut it very close to the deadline, but I do not know of the deadlines for many of the Masters of Science programs. I also assume that it would be easier to get accepted into an MPH program with a Physio major than that of an M.S. in Bio-stats program. That is also b/c I assume due to MUCH more M.S. programs in Bio-stats than SOPHA MPH programs the # of accepted is also lower.

For me, I know that among the schools I would actually look at Maryland, UIC-Chicago, and Ohio State (unfortunately OSU and UIC would be my two dream options!) are February deadlines. Another question would be whether despite a late deadline if schools fill up very quickly for the Bio-stats or Epi applicants.

I appreciate any information or any clarifications in which I am asking. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!🙂🙂🙂

 

[stmaan01]

This would be a good place to start.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=644314

 

[OneDay81]

I think it depends on what you want to do with the degree. MPH is a professional degree, whereas MS are usually more academic, from what I gather. The schools that offer the two degree options can explain the difference between and the focus of two.

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