The innovative structure of the two-year Columbia Master of Public Health (MPH) program integrates seven components to ensure that learning in one part of the program informs activities and assignments in another. This is the largest degree program offered by the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and prepares students for long and fruitful careers in the field.

The Department of Health Policy and Management (HPM) offers a specialized Master of Health Administration. These MHA degree paths integrate organizational leadership and management, health policy, and public health and health systems. It provides students with the management skills of a business school education but does so in a context that emphasizes the unique nature of the healthcare system. Students can complete the coursework through the full-time program or part-time program. The curriculum in all of our programs offers ongoing professional development activities. Students also complete practicum fieldwork which offers valuable professional experience. Core courses provide students with a solid understanding of the statistical tools and key concepts used by many public health practitioners. Management and policy courses emphasize the skills needed for careers in health service delivery.

The Master of Science degree is an academic degree that provides specialized knowledge in a particular subject matter. The interdisciplinary nature of the Mailman School’s educational experience also provides students in these programs with a broad public health perspective that facilitates successful careers in public health and related areas.

The Accelerated MPH is an intensive, one-year program designed for highly motivated professionals seeking to enhance their careers with a degree in public health. The curriculum is similar to the innovative curriculum of the two-year Columbia MPH but completed at a faster, more demanding pace.

Why Earn an MPH? While many healthcare professionals care for the individual, public health experts take a wider view. You'll use community engagement and data to prevent disease and improve health across the entire population.

The Online Master of Health Administration program was designed to provide you with a blend of leadership and management skills you need to successfully run today’s complex US healthcare systems.

As healthcare costs and medical issues increase, the need to balance the health of patients and organizations continues to grow, and the demand for qualified professionals with expertise in healthcare management increases. Our MS in healthcare management will give you the skills you need to help provide a healthier future – for your company and community.

How can we improve healthcare access and quality—while lowering costs? What are the links between a community's state of health and its housing, transportation, and education? Our MPA in Health Policy and Management (HPAM) program gives you the unique opportunity to study health policy and management in a school of public service where you can see these interplays.

The Advanced MPH Online is a two-year program designed for highly motivated professionals seeking to enhance their careers with a degree in public health. The curriculum resembles the innovative curriculum of our Columbia MPH but is completed fully online. It focuses on implementation science, which is the study of introducing, institutionalizing, and sustaining public health policies, programs, and activities in complex settings.

Clinical Research is a component of healthcare science that focuses on the safety and efficacy of medications, diagnostics, and medical treatments. The MS program in Clinical Research is designed to produce competent clinical researchers through a unique educational experience consisting of clinical research methodology, epidemiology and biostatistics, ethical and regulatory principles, and evidence-based healthcare.

Whether you’re looking to advance your career by expanding your knowledge of contemporary psychological theories and perspectives or to further your study at the doctoral level, an MA in Psychology provides the comprehensive academic and practical preparation to get you where you want to go.

If you have an educational background in psychology, a master’s in school psychology allows you to leverage your knowledge to enter into the critically important field of school psychology. Upon completion of this program, you will be ready to provide psychoeducational services at schools assisting students, educators, and parents. Graduates typically provide assessment, consultation, and intervention services in school settings.

The Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health allows highly-qualified Postbac Premed students to study for and receive a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree during the glide year by pursuing the General Public Health track within the Mailman Accelerated M.P.H. program.

The Master of Community Health Education program will prepare you to make the most of today’s changing health and wellness environment and help make a difference in the locations in which you live and work. During this accelerated program – which can be completed in just one year – you’ll focus on mastering the key components of community health education, prevention and outreach. Through our unique purpose-centered education model, each semester you will be engaged in a constructive action that provides real-world experience. Over the course of the program, you will develop a community health project that involves assessing community health needs, working with stakeholders to develop a project that meets those needs, implementing your project, and evaluating the results

The Master of Science in Epidemiology is a research-focused degree that prepares students to design and conduct epidemiologic studies as well as analyze, interpret, model, and report on data from public health, health care, biomedical, clinical and population-based studies.