Public Administration/Public Health (MPA/MPH) Joint Degree
The School of Public Management and Policy and the UIS Department of Public Health have established a joint degree program in accordance with university policy. Students interested in earning both the MPA degree and the MPH degree can contact either the MPA or MPH office. Students may complete the two degrees with a total of 74 credit hours through the joint degree program, compared to a total of 84 for the two degrees separately. Students pursuing this joint degree program option will be required to complete an appropriate closure exercise in each of the two degree organizations. Students must submit a graduation application for each degree by the applicable deadline and will earn two separate degrees.
Program Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes are important components for all academic programs at the University of Illinois Springfield and are required by the Higher Learning Commission. Questions related to the learning outcomes for this program should be addressed to the applicable department/school.
Requirements
| PAD Degree Requirements | ||
| PAD 501 | Introduction to the Profession | 3 |
| PAD 502 | Organization Dynamics | 3 |
| PAD 504 | Budget And Finance | 3 |
| PAD 505 | Human Resource Management | 3 |
| PAD 506 | Public Policy for Managers | 3 |
| PAD 507 | Information for Decision Making | 3 |
| Select one of the following: 1 | 3 | |
| Public Policy Analysis | ||
| Program Evaluation | ||
| Community Planning and Policy | ||
| Electives 2 | ||
| Select six hours of 400- or 500- level PAD courses | 6 | |
| Master Closure 3 | ||
| PAD 571 | Capstone Seminar | 3 |
| PAD 572 | Capstone Seminar Continuing Enrollment | 0 |
| Total Hours | 30 | |
- 1
If PAD 531, PAD 533, or PAD 553 was taken to satisfy the quantitative core requirement elective, it cannot count in this elective category.
- 2
Students may submit a Student Petition to use PAD 561 as one credit hour toward the internship requirement.
- 3
Campus policy requires that PAD majors, who enroll in PAD 571 but who do not complete the course in one semester, must enroll in PAD 572 Capstone Seminar Continuing Enrollment (zero credit hours, one billable hour), each fall and spring semester until the course work is completed.
| MPH Degree Requirements | ||
| MPH 501 | Introduction to Public Health | 4 |
| MPH 503 | Biostatistics | 4 |
| MPH 506 | Research Methods in Public Health | 4 |
| MPH 511 | Epidemiology | 4 |
| MPH 521 | Introduction to Environmental Health | 4 |
| MPH 531 | Public Health Policy | 4 |
| MPH 561 | Public Health Education | 4 |
| MPH 581 | Internship 2 | 4 |
| Concentration Courses | ||
| Social Determinants of Health (Required) | 4 | |
| Social Determinants of Health | ||
| Advanced Epidemiology (Select one course from the following) | 4 | |
| Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases | ||
| Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases | ||
| Analytical Epidemiology | ||
| Advanced Public Health Policy (Select one course from the following) | 4 | |
| Program Evaluation for Public Health | ||
| Health Economics | ||
| Introduction to Health Services and Administration | ||
| Master Closure 1 | ||
| MPH 579 | Comprehensive Examination 1 | 0 |
| MPH 583 | Comprehensive Exam Continuing Enrollment 1 | 0 |
| Total Hours | 44 | |
- 1
Students MUST complete the MPH 579 Comprehensive Examination. No credit hours are awarded for completion of the exam. Students who do not complete this examination during their final semester of study must enroll in MPH 583 (zero credit hours, one billable credit hour) each regular semester (fall/spring) until they pass the exam.