Degree at a glance
Customize your education
Select your academic focus area
Culminating experience
Research and present a master’s thesis
Tuition & funding support
$23,202 for annual in-state tuition and fees
Career
1:1 career advising and internship support
Degree requirements
A 21-month, 62-credit thesis-based degree program for students who want training in academic research. Students have the opportunity to work with faculty across multiple disciplines including environmental public health, toxicology, occupational health, climate change and more. This degree requires 23 credits in core coursework, 10 related to your thesis, and 29 additional elective credits.
Student stories
Cecilia Martindale
DEOHS Outstanding Master’s Student and Omenn Award winner Cecilia Martindale is committed to protecting our health from climate change impacts
Hannah Dye
DEOHS MS student Hannah Dye wins Castner Award to assess environmental impacts on children’s health in farming communities
Abbie Gilbert
DEOHS MS student Abbie Gilbert wins Castner Award to support research using zinc to measure hair growth rates
Areas of emphasis
Areas of emphasis are recommended elective selections to achieve core competencies that will set you up for your future career. They are not required and do not appear on your transcript.
Student research
Timothy Obadiah Magnus
Assessment of Animal Health Practices and Antibiotics Usage on Dairy Farms in Washington State
MS Thesis, 2025
Faculty: Emily Hovis, John Meschke
Briahna Lynne Koger
Sexually Transmitted Infection Wastewater-Based Surveillance in Rural and Urban Washington State
MS Thesis, 2025
Faculty: Erica Fuhrmeister
Rica Mae Pagay Monis
Assessing the Potential of Local Seaweed as an Agricultural Soil Amendment: Carbon, Nutrient, and Contaminant Profiling of Ulva spp. from Puget Sound
MS Thesis, 2025
Faculty: Sarah Collier
Tuition & funding support
- Traineeships, fellowships, research and teaching assistantships and other funding opportunities can help students reduce costs of attendance.
- MS and PhD students from 16 Western states and territories pay in-state tuition.
Career support
DEOHS’s dedicated internship and career services manager provides DEOHS graduate students with:
- Personalized, one-on-one career advising for current students and recent graduates.
- Help with finding internships and jobs.
- Career development workshops.
- Networking opportunities.
- Employer information sessions with representatives from industry, consulting, government agencies and advocacy organizations.
- Access to a LinkedIn networking group, internal internship boards and public health job sites.