Overview

Graduates of the Public Health degree programme offered by Cornell University are prepared to manage, prevent, identify, and respond to infectious disease threats, covering ongoing and emerging viral, bacterial, fungal or parasitic disease concerns in both humans and animals.

Key Facts

Students learn how to track disease spread, map and disseminate appropriate public health communications, and to lead a coordinated response to address the public health need. This includes training in epidemiological techniques specifically related to infectious diseases and outbreak investigation, as well as training in vector borne diseases.

Different from large undergraduate programs, this professional master’s program is designed to create a ‘community of practice’ where we all push each other to grow and improve, in both traditional public health knowledge areas, and in professional competence (e.g., “soft skills”, “leadership”, “emotional intelligence”, etc.). We are a small cohort of students and core faculty, drawing on expertise from across campus and across the world.

Learning Outcomes

Cornell’s MPH curriculum is designed to help build and develop competence in performance areas that are critical for public health. Competence is the ability to access and integrate knowledge and skill to do something successfully and efficiently in a given context.

Students gain knowledge that is core to public health practice and learn how to continuously build their knowledge base.

Students learn specific skills that are strategic for public health practice.

Students are pushed to integrate their knowledge and skills to complete projects or address problems from the real world.

Students practice ongoing self-assessment and continuous improvement of competence across scenarios and situations.

Programme Structure

Courses included:

Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Food Systems & Health

Environment, Climate & Health

Emergency Preparedness & Management

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-08-25 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-05-15 00:00:00

Language

English

Credits

30 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Ithaca, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

Official transcripts

Résumé
Personal statement that includes what you have experienced in your education, work, or life that is pushing you towards public health
Statement of intent that describes why you want to pursue your MPH at Cornell and how our curriculum, faculty, and One Health approach, will help you achieve your professional goals
Three (3) letters of reference
Cornell Graduate School Quick Application
English Language Proficiency Requirement for all applicants

Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

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Non-residents

46658 USD / year

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Out-of-State

46658 USD / year

≈ 46658 USD / year
Domestic

Applies to you

In-State

46658 USD / year

≈ 46658 USD / year

Living costs

Ithaca

United States

1128 - 2460 USD / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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Funding

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Scholarships Information

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