Dual-Degree
Program with
UMass School of 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,
including the following. One focus combines a B.A. in environmental
studies with an MS in environmental health sciences. Another focus
combines a mathematics major or minor with a biostatistics MS.
Ordinarily, the student will spend her junior year at UMass.
By her sophomore year, she must have two advisers-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 AB,
she will spend her fifth year at UMass.
Contacts for the public health program are Janice Gifford (math)
and Steve Dunn (earth and environment).
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