College of Public Health ranking
JOHNSON CITY (March 12, 2019) – The 2020 U.S. News Best Graduate Schools Rankings named the East Tennessee State University College of Public Health in the top third of schools and programs of public health accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CePH).
The ETSU College of Public Health was first accredited by CePH in 2009, making it the first College of Public Health in the state of Tennessee. The college has more than doubled in enrollment in the past decade, and has received graduate applications from students in 49 states and 53 countries.
“Going from being unranked as recently as 2011 to being just outside the top quarter of all public health schools and programs in the nation reflects the impressive teaching and research efforts of our faculty and students, as well as the college’s contributions to important public health issues,” said Dr. Randy Wykoff, dean of the ETSU College of Public Health.
U.S. News ranked the college 46th out of 177 schools, placing it among the top 10 public health graduate schools in the southeastern United States.
While the College of Public Health has seen gains in its regional reputation, it also has been in the national spotlight for its innovative efforts and curriculum.
The college recently received national recognition for its work in battling the opioid crisis. Last year, the U.S. Public Health Service and the Interprofessional Education Collaborative recognized ETSU with the 2018 Public Health Excellence in Interprofessional Education Collaboration Award for efforts coordinated by ETSU’s Center for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment, housed in the College of Public Health.
In addition, the college has gained attention for its programs and curriculum, including receiving the 2017 Delta Omega award recognizing Project EARTH as the most innovative curriculum in the country. Project EARTH is a series of activities at the ETSU/Eastman Valleybrook campus, which teach students the skills that they will need to work in low-resource settings. Project EARTH includes the Niswonger VILLAGE, a public health simulation lab that replicates how people live and work in low-resource settings.
ETSU College of Public Health has five departments, including Environmental Health, Health Sciences, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Community and Behavioral Health, and Health Services Management and Policy. These departments offer five undergraduate degrees, five master’s degrees and three doctoral degrees, as well as several undergraduate minors and graduate certificates.
The Best Graduate Schools Rankings for health school specialties are based solely on academic experts’ ratings. To gather the peer assessment data, U.S. News asked deans, program directors and senior faculty to judge the academic quality of programs in their field on a scale of 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding). For more information about the rankings, visit www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-health-schools.
To learn more about ETSU College of Public Health, visit www.etsu.edu/cph.
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