MPH - Penn State

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Hi everyone,
I'm brand new to SDN; I just happened to come across it on a Google search looking for students/almuni perspectives on different MPH programs. Anyway, I tried searching through past threads to see if anyone had any experience with Penn State's MPH program, and I couldn't really find much. I'm specifically looking at their Epi/Biostats track, and I have done just about as much digging as I can do (visited the school, spoke to admissions, spoke to two student reps at an open house, etc). I really do like their program, but as a full disclosure I'm a Pennsylvania native and even a PSU alum, so I'm wondering if it's really the right program for me or if I'm just retreating back to familiar things within my comfort zone, haha.

I was hoping to hear from people who might have applied but ultimately chose another school or people who are currently in any track of Penn State's MPH. Thanks in advance!

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Why do you want an MPH? Is the goal to be an expert on public health, to be an epidemiologist, or to be a biostatistician?

MPH degrees are designed to make you suited in areas of public health, "tracks" within there are to make you more comfortable interacting with and minimally using the latter two.

A Masters in Epi would make you strong on Epi but much weaker in the other two.

A Masters in biostatistics would set you to be a biostatistician.

PSU has a pretty well regarded Masters in Applied Statistics if you wanted to be a statistician.

John's Hopkins has a well known school of public health if you wanted the other two.

Epidemiology and Biostatistics will be more quantitatively-oriented than an MPH (usually regardlesss of an MPH "track") and biostats will be more quantitatively rigorous than either of the other two.
 
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