Public Health Early Admissions Student Track

Public health is the science and art of protecting and improving the health of communities through education, promotion of healthy lifestyles, and research of disease and injury prevention.

Public Health Early Admissions Student Track (PHEAST) is a cooperative program between Chadron State College and the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health. The purpose of PHEAST is to recruit, educate, and graduate public health leaders from Nebraska. Program graduates are expected to promote and protect the health of Nebraskans by serving communities across the state. PHEAST represents a commitment and dedication to the education of Nebraskans and selected Nebraska students are pre-admitted into one specific program at UNMC College of Public Health.

Fields of Study

Dual-Degree Programs available from UNMC

Benefits

Benefits for early admission include:

  • Acceptance to PHEAST grants you early admission to the UNMC Master of Public Health Program.
  • All PHEAST participants receive a tuition waiver of up to 16 credits per semester for their junior and senior years.
  • Access to UNMC’s College of Public Health faculty, staff, and alumni for mentoring.

Eligibility

  • You are enrolled at Chadron State College and have a GPA of 3.2 or higher
  • You are a Nebraska resident and have completed approximately 60 credit hours, but no more than 80 credit hours in your program of study at the time of entry into PHEAST. Students must complete and submit a projected plan of study along with their application documents. If the three campus slots are not filled, students who have completed more than 80 credit hours at time of entry into PHEAST may be considered on a case-by-case basis for admission into the program.

The Rural Health Opportunities Program (RHOP) is a cooperative program between Chadron State College (CSC) and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). The purpose of the program is to recruit and educate traditional and non-traditional students from rural Nebraska who will return to practice in the rural areas of the state.

This program represents a commitment and dedication to the education of Nebraskans and to provide quality health care to the citizens of the state. RHOP currently has options in medicine, dentistry, dental hygiene, pharmacy, medical laboratory science, physical therapy, nursing, physician assistant, and radiography.

Admission into each option of the program is competitive. Each participant accepted into the program receives automatic admission into the designated professional program upon successful completion of the appropriate curriculum at CSC. For information, application forms, admissions criteria, criteria for evaluation of progress in the program, and programs of study please contact the Health Professions Office at CSC.

For more information contact:

Health Professions
hpoffice@mxy163.com
Dr. Ryan Morgan
Dean of Graduate Studies and the School of Business, Mathematics, and Science

Chadron State College
1000 Main Street
Chadron, NE 69337