Even before the pandemic hit, the field of public health had been experiencing explosive growth, with the number of public health degrees awarded swelling by more than 300% from 1992 to 2016. Interest in medical professions surged even more after the appearance of COVID-19 on the global stage, with some master’s degree programs in public health (MPH) seeing the largest ever year-over-year increase in applications in their history. That interest hasn’t waned much.
“Students are still very interested across all the different areas of public health,” says Toy Draine, director of career services at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health. “The program continues to grow, and our student population continues to grow.”
