Degree at a glance
Customize your education
Select your academic focus area
Culminating experience
Supervised field study project
Tuition & funding support
$23,202 for annual in-state tuition and fees
Career
1:1 career advising and internship support
Degree requirements
This degree is an accelerated, 15-month, 52-credit program for students who plan to pursue practice-based careers in private industry or federal, state or local government agencies. Students can pick classes in a single focus areas to dig deep or combine multiple areas of study. This degree requires 23 credits in core coursework, 6 related to an internship and project, and 23 additional elective credits.
Student stories
Belen Salguero
DEOHS graduate student Belen Salguero helps nonprofit Casa Latina create construction training program for workers
Everetta Rasyid
DEOHS MS Applied student screens printing chemicals for safety as an intern with HP
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
Dawn Johnston
Lead in Commercial Braiding Hair Extensions
MS Applied, 2025
Faculty: Diana Ceballos, Katie Fellows
Phoebe Nadeau
PFAS and Fish Consumption: A Review of Blood PFAS Concentrations and Public Health Guidelines
MS Applied, 2025
Faculty: Edward Kasner, Judit Marsillach
Tania Valentina Vallejo Quiroga
Development of a Geographic Information System (GIS) Tool To Identify Food Rescue Opportunities in Washington State
MS Applied in Environmental Public Health, 2023
Faculty: Emily Hovis
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.