A Combined Degree program enables undergraduate students to enroll in graduate courses in their senior year, which can be counted towards the completion of both their Bachelor's and Master's degree requirements. The ability to take these "swing courses" allows students to earn both their Bachelor's and Master's degrees in a shortened period of time, typically within five years. Undergraduate students interested in this option can find more information regarding program requirements on the University's Combined Programs website.
Program Requirements
Students in this combined degree program must complete the requirements for:
Public Health - Health Systems Administration and Policy Concentration (B.S.)
Business Administration (M.B.A.)
Graduate Swing Courses
A combined degree program allows students to complete 6-12 graduate credits ("graduate swing courses") while enrolled as an undergraduate. These courses count for both their bachelor and master’s degrees. Graduate swing courses will count toward undergraduate free electives, unless noted otherwise.
The Graduate Swing Courses for this program:
Recommended Roadmap to Degree(s)
This recommended five-year plan is provided as an outline for students to follow in order to complete their degree requirements within five years. This plan is a recommendation and students should only use it in consultation with their academic advisor.
Fifth year courses are taken at the graduate level, after matriculation into the graduate portion of this combined degree program.
Undergraduate Program
| First Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| New Student Seminar | 1 | SEEDS: Effective Writing II | 3 |
| Effective Writing I | 3 | SEEDS: World Language 2 or Free Elective | 3 |
| SEEDS: Interactive Communication | 3 | HLTH 202 (Fulfills SEEDS: Exploration 1 – Analyzing Cultures and Societies) | 3 |
| SEEDS: World Language 1 | 3 | STAT 109 (Fulfills SEEDS: Quantitative Reasoning) | 3 |
| HLTH 102 (Fulfills SEEDS: Political and Civic Life) | 3 | ECON 102 | 3 |
| 13 | 15 | ||
| Second Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| SEEDS: Exploration 2 | 3 | SEEDS: Exploration 3 | 3 |
| HLTH 240 | 3 | SEEDS: Exploration 4 | 3 |
| HLTH 290 | 3 | HLTH 360 | 3 |
| HLTH 208 | 3 | HLTH 361 | 3 |
| HLTH 204 | 3 | INFO 173 | 3 |
| 15 | 15 | ||
| Third Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| HLTH 365 | 3 | HLTH 425 | 3 |
| HLTH 355 | 3 | HLTH 397 | 3 |
| HLTH 370 | 3 | Concentration Elective | 3 |
| Concentration Elective | 3 | Free Elective | 3 |
| Free Elective | 3 | Free Elective | 3 |
| 15 | 15 | ||
| Fourth Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| HLTH 490 | 3 | HLTH 498 | 6 |
| HLTH 492 | 3 | Free Elective | 3 |
| Concentration Elective (Upper Level) | 3 | Graduate Swing Courses | 6 |
| Free Elective | 3 | ||
| Free Elective | 3 | ||
| Free Elective | 2 | ||
| 17 | 15 | ||
| Total Credits 120 | |||
Graduate Program
| Fourth Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer | Credits | ||||
| First Half | |||||
| MBA Core course | 1.5 | ||||
| MBA Core course | 1.5 | ||||
| MBA Elective course | 1.5 | ||||
| Second Half | |||||
| MBA Core course | 3 | ||||
| MBA Core course | 1.5 | ||||
| MBA Core course | 1.5 | ||||
| 10.5 | |||||
| Fifth Year | |||||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits | ||
| First Half | First Half | ||||
| MBA Core course | 1.5 | MBA Core course | 3 | ||
| MBA Flexible Core course | 1.5 | MBA Elective course | 1.5 | ||
| MBA Flexible Core course | 1.5 | Second Half | |||
| MBA Elective course | 1.5 | MBA Core course | 1.5 | ||
| Second Half | MBA Core course | 1.5 | |||
| MBA Core course | 1.5 | MBA Core course | 1.5 | ||
| MBA Core course | 1.5 | ||||
| MBA Elective | 1.5 | ||||
| 10.5 | 9 | ||||
| Total Credits 30 | |||||