Students, faculty, and staff benefit from the School of Public Health’s rich, complex mix of backgrounds and perspectives. Diversity is essential to our educational programs and invaluable to our health as a community. Our students hail from 49 countries and speak more than 60 different languages, among them: Zulu, Russian, Khmer, Italian, Arabic, Bengali, Haitian Creole, and Punjabi. Earning a degree at the School of Public Health gives students the chance to form relationships with peers from around the globe and further enrich the practice of public health through a cross-cultural experience. Grounded in equity and diversity, our students graduate equipped with the openness and cross-cultural understanding that is essential to effective public health in the twenty-first century.
Our Students
Our Fall 2020 class is comprised of students from a wide range of personal experience and academic backgrounds. This diversity enriches the overall academic experience for our students at SPH and enables them to tackle challenges through different lenses. This leads to a truly interdisciplinary approach to problem-solving essential to successful public health initiatives.
Total Students
Median Age
Part Time
Full Time
Male
Female
Domestic
International
Master's Level Average Incoming GPA
Doctoral Level Average Incoming GPA
Student Spotlight

Active Student Organizations
There are many student organizations at SPH that focus on public health issues, common interests, or identities, including: