Epidemiology

A program that focuses on the scientific study of disease, disability, and trauma patterns within and across populations and the development of health management mechanisms to prevent and control disease outbreaks and injurious behaviors. Includes instruction in biostatistics, biochemistry, molecular biology, immunology, disease and injury determinants, genetic disease and disability factors, behavioral studies, health services research, environmental disease and injury factors, and population studies.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 95 institutions across the United States, with a total of 9537 degrees awarded annually.

Bachelor's Degrees

103

degrees awarded

Post-Baccalaureate Certificates

156

certificates awarded

Master's Degrees

2,361

degrees awarded

Doctoral Degrees

559

degrees awarded

Other Awards

6,358

awards given

Top Schools for Epidemiology

These institutions offer the most degrees in this program, ranked by total annual completions.

Rank	Institution	Degrees
1	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	918
2	Boston University Boston, MA	666
3	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Houston, TX	546
4	Emory University Atlanta, GA	543
5	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	501
6	Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	429
7	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	402
8	University of Miami Coral Gables, FL	381
9	Yale University New Haven, CT	276
10	Drexel University Philadelphia, PA	264
11	Tufts University Medford, MA	258
12	University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	237
13	University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus Denver, CO	228
14	University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA	213
15	George Washington University Washington, DC	207
16	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY	207
17	Texas A & M University-College Station College Station, TX	192
18	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, PA	180
19	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN	171
20	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	141
21	Benedictine University Lisle, IL	132
22	University of Iowa Iowa City, IA	120
23	Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA	120
24	Saint Louis University Saint Louis, MO	114
25	Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH	111
26	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC	108
27	Stanford University Stanford, CA	96
28	Temple University Philadelphia, PA	96
29	University of Maryland, Baltimore Baltimore, MD	75
30	University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA	72
31	The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Galveston, TX	66
32	University of South Carolina-Columbia Columbia, SC	66
33	Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN	57
34	University of Toledo Toledo, OH	54
35	University of Louisville Louisville, KY	48
36	Michigan State University East Lansing, MI	45
37	University of Rochester Rochester, NY	45
38	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	42
39	Medical University of South Carolina Charleston, SC	42
40	University of North Texas Health Science Center Fort Worth, TX	39
41	Loma Linda University Loma Linda, CA	39
42	University of Delaware Newark, DE	39
43	University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO	39
44	Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York, NY	39
45	University at Albany Albany, NY	39
46	Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH	36
47	Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	36
48	Kent State University at Kent Kent, OH	36
49	Duke University Durham, NC	33
50	University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	33
51	University of Providence Great Falls, MT	33
52	West Virginia University Morgantown, WV	30
53	Brigham Young University Provo, UT	30
54	University of California-Davis Davis, CA	30
55	University of Cincinnati-Main Campus Cincinnati, OH	30
56	Wright State University-Main Campus Dayton, OH	27
57	New York University New York, NY	24
58	University of Florida Gainesville, FL	24
59	Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY	24
60	University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY	24
61	University of Georgia Athens, GA	21
62	University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	21
63	New York Medical College Valhalla, NY	21
64	The University of Tennessee Health Science Center Memphis, TN	18
65	University of Arizona Tucson, AZ	18
66	University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD	18
67	North Dakota State University-Main Campus Fargo, ND	18
68	University of Memphis Memphis, TN	15
69	Baylor University Waco, TX	15
70	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI	15
71	Jackson State University Jackson, MS	15
72	University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences San Juan, PR	15
73	East Tennessee State University Johnson City, TN	15
74	Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science North Chicago, IL	12
75	University of Vermont Burlington, VT	12
76	University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA	12
77	University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA	12
78	Georgetown University Washington, DC	12
79	University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, IL	9
80	Indiana University-Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN	9
81	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA	9
82	University of California-San Francisco San Francisco, CA	9
83	University of Maryland-Baltimore County Baltimore, MD	9
84	University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, HI	6
85	Eastern Virginia Medical School Norfolk, VA	6
86	University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, NE	6
87	University of Kansas Lawrence, KS	6
88	Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA	6
89	Brown University Providence, RI	6
90	San Diego State University San Diego, CA	3
91	University of New Haven West Haven, CT	3
92	University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Little Rock, AR	3
93	Dordt University Sioux Center, IA	3
94	Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ	3
95	Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans New Orleans, LA	3