Admission to the Joint Program

Applicants must apply and be accepted to both the MBA and MPH programs. It is recommended that students interested in this joint degree initiate the application process for the MBA portion of the degree during their first semester of enrollment in the MPH program, but no later than their second semester of enrollment.

Contact Babette J. Neuberger, JD, MPH, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, at the School of Public Health, (312)-9996-5381 or email bjn@uic.edu for more information and for specific admission requirements to the public health portion of the joint program. Current students interested in applying to a joint program should contact their academic adviser.

Degree Requirements

Students must complete a minimum of 74 hours of appropriate graduate work through a combination of core and elective courses to satisfy the joint degree requirements.



Courses Required only for the MBA Courses Required only for MPH
ACTG 500(4)
Introduction to Financial Accounting 		BSTT 400 (4)
Biostatistics I
ECON 520 (4)
Microeconomics for Business Decisions 		EPID 400 (3)
Principles of Epidemiology
FIN 500 (4)
Introduction to Corporate Finance 		EOHS 400 (3)
Principles of Environmental Health Sciences
IDS 532 (4)
Introduction to Operations Management 		CHSC 401 (3)
Behavioral Sciences in Public Health
MGMT 541 (4)
Organizational Behavior 		CHSC 400 (3)
Public Health Concepts and Practices
MKTG 500 (4)
Introduction to Marketing 		IPHS 650 (3)
Field Experience in Public Health
MBA Electives: (12)
IPHS 698 Capstone Exp. (1)
MPH Divisional Requirements and Electives (18 sh) **

JOINT DEGREES


CONTACT THE LGSB:

Liautaud Graduate School of Business (MC 077)
815 W. Van Buren
Suite 220
Chicago, IL 60607

Phone: (312) 996-4573
Fax: (312) 413-0338

E-mail: mba@uic.edu