Online Master of Public Health – General
Gain valuable expertise to improve public health and make a difference.
Program Overview
EWU's Master of Public Health is offered fully online
The Eastern Washington University online Master of Public Health – General program can give you a broad array of career options and the ability to make a difference in a meaningful way—by educating patients, slowing the spread of disease and increasing life expectancy.
This online MPH degree prepares you to examine the sociological perspective of health care inequities and to develop the means to improve them. The coursework for this master's degree incorporates an integrated learning experience to match theory with real-world application. For example, you will create a Biostats toolkit to use in the field for research studies—to help you understand which statistical tool should be used to interpret and analyze data.
The faculty for EWU’s Master of Public Health program has practical experience in both rural and global health communities—giving you an expansive view of public health learnings.
As you pursue your online master’s degree in public health, you can prepare for in-demand roles such as public health educator, contact tracer, community health adviser, or biostatistician. According to Burning Glass Technologies, there is more than 13 percent projected growth for Emergency Management Directors, 10 percent growth for Epidemiologists, and more than 18 percent for Health Educators in the next ten years in the Washington region.
The Eastern Washington University School of Business is accredited by AACSB International (AACSB).
In this online MPH degree program, you will learn to:
- analyze public health issues;
- develop programs to meet assessed public health needs;
- assess program outcomes addressing public health concerns; and
- apply funding concepts, both public and private, to public health initiatives.
- analyze public health issues;
- develop programs to meet assessed public health needs;
- assess program outcomes addressing public health concerns; and
- apply funding concepts, both public and private, to public health initiatives.
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EWU offers a variety of health care degrees online. Check out all our online health care programs.
The Master’s in Public Health and Graduate Certificate in Public Health are accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH).
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Tuition
See why our online graduate degrees are cost-effective
The online MPH – General program offers the same affordable, pay-by-the-course tuition to students residing in and out of the state of Washington.
Tuition breakdown:
| Program | Per Credit Hour | Per 4-Credit Hour Course | Per Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| MPH – General | $325 | $1,300 | $19,500* |
Application Fee: $75
PUBH 601 Portfolio Course Fee: $139
*Tuition and fees subject to change. Total program cost does not include foundation courses. If foundation courses are required, the cost will be added to the total program cost.
Tuition breakdown:
Calendar
Save these important dates and deadlines
The EWU online MPH – General is designed to be efficient for working professionals, featuring six-week courses and seven start dates a year. View the full calendar to find the best start date for you, along with deadlines for registration, required documents and tuition payment.
Now enrolling:
| Term | Program Start Date | Application Deadline | Registration Deadline | Tuition Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall II | 11/4/24 | 10/21/24 | 10/30/24 | 11/2/24 |
| Winter I | 12/30/24 | 12/16/24 | 12/24/24 | 12/28/24 |
| Winter II | 2/10/25 | 1/27/25 | 2/5/25 | 2/8/25 |
| Spring I | 3/31/25 | 3/17/25 | 3/26/25 | 3/29/25 |
| Spring II | 5/12/25 | 4/28/25 | 5/7/25 | 5/10/25 |
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Admissions
Register quickly and easily – here’s what you need to know
The admission process for the online Master of Public Health (MPH) is simple and streamlined. You can get started right away, without taking time away from your professional or personal commitments.
Admission Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree
- Cumulative GPA of 3.0
- Professional resume
Online MPH – General Admission Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution
- Overall cumulative GPA of 3.0 or cumulative GPA of 3.0 in the last 90 quarter or 60 semester-graded postsecondary credit hours**
- If your GPA is lower than a 3.0 and you have relevant work experience, we encourage you to apply. Applicants with GPAs below 3.0 are considered for admission on a case-by-case basis.
- Official transcript from the college/university where degree was earned
- Professional resume
Have a question? Call us at 800-826-3411.
**We encourage you to apply if your GPA is lower than a 3.0 and you have at least 3 years of professional work experience. Applicants with GPAs below 3.0 are considered for admission on a case-by-case basis. Please contact an Enrollment Services representative at 800-826-3411 for more information.
Document Submission Information
Order your official, electronic transcripts from the degree-granting institution where you earned your highest degree (bachelor’s or master’s) and have them sent to Eastern Washington University.
- Most EWU graduate programs only require one transcript. Please submit a transcript from your degree-granting institution. This transcript should include the final two years of your degree completion. If it does not, please submit transcripts to cover your final two years of earned credits.
- Please note that transcripts ordered by main may take 4-6 weeks to arrive.
If you are ordering a mailed paper transcript, please have it sent to:
Eastern Washington University
Showalter Hall 206
Cheney, WA 99004
Students in MPH Degree, by Cohorts Entering Between 2021-22 and 2023-24
| Cohort of Students | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-2022 | # Students continuing at beginning of this school year (or # entering for newest cohort) | 255 | ||
| # Students withdrew, dropped, etc. | 0 | |||
| # Students graduated | 0 | |||
| Cumulative graduation rate | 0% | |||
| 2022-23 | # Students continuing at beginning of this school year (or # entering for newest cohort) | 255 | 318 | |
| # Students withdrew, dropped, etc. | 3 | 3 | ||
| # Students graduated | 69 | 1 | ||
| Cumulative graduation rate | 27% | 0% | ||
| 2023-24* | # Students continuing at beginning of this school year (or # entering for newest cohort) | 183 | 314 | 252 |
| # Students withdrew, dropped, etc. | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| # Students graduated | 64 | 72 | 0 | |
| Cumulative graduation rate | 52% | 23% | 0% |
*At the time this data was collected, the 2023-24 academic year was underway, so numbers are incomplete for that year. This data was collected on July 11, 2024. On that date, the data reflects the total number of entering students for the 2023-24 academic year but not the total number of graduates.
Courses
Review the curriculum for your online Master of Public Health degree at EWU
In order to earn the online Master of Public Health – General, you must complete 15 courses (60 credit hours).
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Apply evidence-based principles and the scientific knowledge base to critical evaluation and decision-making in public health.
- Describe a public health problem in terms of magnitude, person, time and place.
- Draw appropriate inferences from epidemiological data.
- Evaluate the strengths and limitations of epidemiological reports.
- Explain how systems models can be tested and validated.
- Prioritize individual, organizational, and community concerns and resources for public health programs.
- Apply descriptive techniques commonly used to summarize public health data.
- Explain the role of biology in the ecological model of population-based health.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify the major environmental and occupational risk factors for health-related outcomes in human population.
- Analyze environmental and occupational health problems, risks, and mitigation.
- Evaluate environmental or occupational policies for their impact on public health and health equity.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Evaluate social identity and intersectionality at a personal level.
- Identify how inequities manifest themselves at the institutional, individual, and internal levels.
- Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community and societal levels.
- Propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes.
- Describe the importance of cultural competence in communicating public health content.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the pattern of burden of disease in a country using standard fertility and mortality indicators, estimates of disease burden measured in Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), and data on disease incidence, prevalence, risk factors and geographic disparities.
- Discuss exposure-disease relationships in human populations.
- Communicate biological risks and prevention strategies to potentially affected communities using inclusive language.
- Apply professional responsibility and ethics to mitigating risk of biological disease outbreaks.
- Design an emergency preparedness plan to respond to a global pandemic.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Critically analyze the program development process.
- Support the concepts of cultural diversity and inclusion as it relates to population values and program planning.
- Use an evidence-based design approach to draft a marketing plan to a target population.
- Select appropriate tools to evaluate a public health program based on process, impact, and outcome objectives.
- Apply a process improvement model to a given public health intervention.
- Use a logic model to depict the relationship between program activities and effects
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Determine different strategies in digital communication for various audiences
- and sectors.
- Evaluate audience-appropriate public health content and dissemination for specific populations.
- Utilize different forms of Social Media to promote Public Health.
- Apply knowledge on media concepts and forms, graphic design, topography, color, by designing a compelling presentation to impact public health.
- Demonstrate an understanding of health care needs and health disparities of diverse populations and seek to develop health promotion that take cultural diversity into account.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify characteristics of professionalism in Public Health settings.
- Relate leadership styles to personal experience through completion of a leadership e-portfolio.
- Recognize the role of leadership in public health, including affecting policy and change.
- Interpret DiSC profile outcomes in various leadership settings.
- Analyze ethical leadership characteristics encountered in professional environments.
- Create a leadership toolkit specific to Public Health, including ethics, 6 levels of leadership, professionalism, and conflict resolution.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Apply theory in a practical environment through a student driven experience.
- Develop professional knowledge, skills, and abilities in completing a student driven experience.
- Cultivate a professional image and network for professional development.
- Assess personal strengths and weaknesses from a personal and professional perspective.
- Evaluate future personal career choices and opportunities.
- Add real life skills to personal portfolio for future employment.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Analyze the grant development process.
- Create a research prospectus for a public health project.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Meet all CEPH accreditation competencies and requirements for an EWU MPH generalist degree via submission of an ePortfolio that documents completion of all program competencies using a variety of artifacts and reflections.
- Verify completion of at least one Applied Practice Experience that meets the required CEPH competencies.
- Verify Integrative Learning Experiences via effective documentation in an ePortfolio.
