Dual-Degree Program in Health Professions

UMass 2-1-1-1 Program in Public Health

Through this program, a Mount Holyoke student may pursue an accelerated M.S. degree in public health at the University of Massachusetts in the year following receipt of her A.B. from Mount Holyoke. Essentially, this program allows a student to complete a bachelor's and a master's degree in five years. The student and her family pay for four years at MHC, which covers the fifth year of tuition at UMass, assuming the student is in good standing.

Students can choose to focus their study in several disciplines. One focus combines an A.B. in environmental studies with an M.S. in environmental health sciences. Another focus combines a mathematics major or minor with a biostatistics M.S.

Ordinarily, the student will spend her junior year at UMass. By her sophomore year, she must have two advisors--one from Mount Holyoke in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics or the Department of Earth and Environment; the other from the UMass School of Public Health. After completing her Mount Holyoke A.B., she will spend her fifth year at UMass.

Requirements include:

• Successful completion of the junior year courses with B or better average in all UMass public health courses taken.
• Completed UMass Graduate School application by deadline for the fall semester following the senior year (e.g., application, personal statement, reference letters, transcript, etc.).
• GRE scores with a total of 1000 or more on verbal + quantitative and a verbal score of 475 or higher.
• Successful graduation from Mount Holyoke with an overall GPA of 2.75 or higher.
• For the environmental health sciences program, the applicant must have completed two years of chemistry and one year each of physics, calculus, and biological sciences.

Contacts for the public health program are Janice Gifford (mathematics) and Steve Dunn (earth and environment).