• Students graduate with the qualitative and quantitative skills necessary for professional research and teaching in the concepts and methods in biology, economics, mathematics and statistics with the goals of understanding the distribution and determinants of disease, injury, and impaired productivity in populations and recommending actions for prevention or control.
  • All M.S. students are required to take a minimum of 30 units of required and recommended courses under the thesis plan (I), or a minimum 36 units of required and recommended courses under the examination plan (II).
  • Plan I will carry a minimum of (but typically considerably more than) 6 research units for credit in addition to the required and recommended courses.
  • At least a B (3.0 grade-point) average must be achieved in all graduate and upper division course work completed in order to maintain graduate standing in this program.