Degree at a glance
Customize your education
Select your academic focus area
Areas of emphasis
Culminating experience
Supervised field study project
Student projects
Tuition & funding support
$20,850 for annual in-state tuition and fees
Funding support
Careers
1:1 career advising and internship support
Career 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.
Core courses
This degree requires 23 credits in core coursework, 6 related to an internship and project, and 23 additional elective credits.
Student stories
Miguel Rojas-Flores
DEOHS master’s student Miguel Rojas-Flores leads behavior change assessment to improve farmworker health and safety
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Diana Marquez
DEOHS master's student in Occupational Hygiene interns with Washington State Department of Labor & Industries in the Yakima Valley
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Aaron Bentson-Royal
DEOHS master's student in Applied Toxicology interns with EPA Superfund and Emergency Management
LEARN MOREAreas 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.
Recent student projects
Zakary Reimann
Video exposure monitoring as a consultative tool in industrial hygiene
MS (Applied) | Applied Occupational Hygiene (App OH)
2019 | Martin A. Cohen
Benjamin Weber
Noise exposure to marine foghorns: Assessment and control strategies
MS (Applied) | Applied Occupational Hygiene (App OH)
2020 | Christopher D. Simpson
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.