{"id":79071,"date":"2020-02-28T12:13:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T17:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/?page_id=79071"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:47:07","slug":"ms-in-epidemiology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/sph\/programs\/epidemiology\/ms-in-epidemiology\/","title":{"rendered":"MS in Epidemiology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 32-unit program provides students with a fundamental grounding in both the theory and practice of epidemiology, and emphasizes the development and application of quantitative research skills to real-world research in public health with the acquisition of skills in hypothesis formation; data collection and management; statistical computing and interpretation and presentation of results. Graduates of the program are prepared for research positions in academic settings, government, hospitals, or private industries. They are also well-positioned for doctoral education in epidemiology and related fields.<\/p>\n<h2>Learning Outcomes<\/h2>\n<p>Upon graduation, students will be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Critically evaluate the data collection methods and study designs reported within the epidemiologic literature.<\/li>\n<li>Develop clear, testable scientific hypotheses and design epidemiologic studies to evaluate them.<\/li>\n<li>Apply statistical programming tools (e.g., R) to acquire, clean, document, and analyze epidemiologic data and produce reproducible workflows.<\/li>\n<li>Quantify disease occurrence and causal contrasts on appropriate scales\u2014incidence, prevalence, risk\/rate differences and ratios, odds ratios, and hazard measures\u2014and draw valid inferences from epidemiologic data.<\/li>\n<li>Communicate epidemiologic research results in technical and nontechnical terms to researchers, public health professionals, and external audiences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Course Requirements<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>SPH BS 730 Introduction to Statistical Modeling in R (4 units)<\/li>\n<li>SPH BS 845 Data Science and Statistical Modeling in R (4 units)<\/li>\n<li>SPH EP 714 Introduction to Epidemiological Research (4 units)<\/li>\n<li>SPH EP 722 Data Collection Methods for Epidemiologic Research (2 units)<\/li>\n<li>SPH EP 749 Applications to Introductory Epidemiology (4 units)<\/li>\n<li>SPH EP 813 Intermediate Epidemiology (4 units)<\/li>\n<li>SPH EP 816 A Guided Epidemiologic Study (2 units)<\/li>\n<li>SPH EP 850 Applications of Intermediate Epidemiology (4 units) <strong>or<\/strong> SPH EP 752 Cancer Epidemiology (4 units) <strong>or<\/strong> SPH EP 755 Infectious Disease Epidemiology (4 units)<\/li>\n<li>SPH PH 700 Foundations of Public Health (0 units)<\/li>\n<li>SPH PH 746 Career PREP (0 units)<\/li>\n<li>SPH PH 870 Research Skills Seminar (2 units)<\/li>\n<li>SPH PH 880 Research Dissemination Seminar (2 units)<\/li>\n<li>SPH PH 890 Mentored Research Experience (0 units)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Mentored Research Experience<\/h2>\n<p>The 400-hour mentored research experience requirement gives students the opportunity to collaborate with a BUSPH faculty member or an approved partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 32-unit program provides students with a fundamental grounding in both the theory and practice of epidemiology, and emphasizes the development and application of quantitative research skills to real-world research in public health with the acquisition of skills in hypothesis formation; data collection and management; statistical computing and interpretation and presentation of results. Graduates of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17439,"featured_media":0,"parent":17202,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79071"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102104,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79071\/revisions\/102104"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}