Master of Public Health (MPH) Program

The degree provides a practice-oriented approach for those who want to strengthen their general knowledge and skills in public health, either through a single degree or through one of the program’s many dual degree programs.

For prospective students

Is a career in public health right for you? Learn more about what public health is and find resources to explore potential career paths.

View the application deadline, minimum requirements, and information for international and dual degree applicants.

View current tuition and fees, along with information about financial aid and options to obtain funding for your education.

Dual degree programs

Certificate programs

MPH Day of Service

Our annual MPH Day of Service, an MPH Program tradition, will be on Aug. 29 at Lakeshore Nature Preserve. Faculty, staff and students are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Our program takes an interprofessional, practice-oriented approach to provide education and training to students in the Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Pharmacy, Nursing, Veterinary Medicine, Public Affairs, and Law. In the fall of 2019, our program will introduce a new, innovative curriculum that better prepares our graduates to take on the challenges they will face as they enter the public health workforce.

Curriculum (for classes starting in 2019 and later)

MPH Program competencies

For current students

Curriculum (cohorts before 2019)

Our curriculum provides a practice-oriented program for students in all health professions who want to strengthen general knowledge and skills in public health.

Approved electives

Students in the Master of Public Health Program are required to take 13 credits of electives. Electives assist students to individualize their program of study and develop specialty skills.

Fieldwork and capstone

The field experience and capstone are required of all students in the MPH program. Fieldwork provides students with practical experience to apply skills and knowledge, while the capstone is based on a non-thesis culminating MPH experience.

In the news

MPH alumni share experiences in the state's Communicable Diseases Epidemiology Section

Nov. 4, 2019

The state's Communicable Diseases Epidemiology Section has a particularly high number of MPH alumni, so we thought we would learn a little bit about each of their experiences.

Childhood questions help fuel Emma Hudson's passion for health policy

Nov. 4, 2019

Hudson recalls wondering how children, whose parents couldn't leave work, could get dental care. Those type of questions helped fuel her interest in health policy.

MPH alumna Jasmine Zapata aims to empower in health care

Sept. 4, 2019

Jasmine Zapata, MD ’13, MPH ’17 (PG ’16, ’18), believes that the pathway to improving African American birth outcomes begins long before conception, pregnancy or delivery.

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Accreditation

The UW-Madison Master of Public Health Program has been accredited by the Council for Education in Public Health (CEPH), since 2009. The MPH program’s most recent accreditation site visit occurred in March 2014. The MPH Program was reaccredited in September 2014.

The final accreditation report and final self-study are available below:

Learn more about accreditation from the CEPH website

Diversity

Promoting and embracing diversity is central to the mission of the Master of Public Health (MPH) Program, the School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For the past several decades, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has made promotion of diversity, equity and inclusion a top priority of institutional life. The MPH Program is committed to a strategy of inclusive excellence by recruiting and sustaining a diverse student body, faculty and staff and providing training that is dedicated to producing public health practitioners who understand the needs of diverse individuals, families and populations.