Are you interested in a career focusing on the intersection of health care policy and social justice? The HSSP MPP Advancement Program is an exciting opportunity for Brandeis undergraduates who want to maximize their time at Brandeis and attend the Heller School at a reduced cost. Admitted HSSP students take two graduate-level classes in the MPP program during their senior year and complete the MPP program as a full-time graduate student in three semesters.
Not only do HSSP/MPP students reduce the cost of graduate school by a whole semester; they are eligible to receive a 50% tuition scholarship for the semesters they are enrolled as a full-time Heller student.
Curriculum
Two Heller MPP core requirements taken in the senior year will count toward the undergraduate degree (as general electives) and toward the MPP degree. In addition, two HSSP courses (American Health Care and Introduction to Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Population Health) will be applied toward the MPP degree. Students then need two fewer electives and only need to take 48 additional credits (the equivalent of 12 full-semester courses) for the MPP degree, graduating in three semesters rather than four. See below for one possible curriculum that students could take.