Any student enrolled in a graduate program outside the College of Public Health is eligible to declare a minor offered by the College of Public Health.
The College currently offers graduate minors in Biostatistics, in Health Services Research, in Occupational Safety and Health and in Public Health Behavior and Promotion. Specific guidelines including credit hours and courses that comprise the minor are on the College’s website: https://cph.osu.edu/students/public-health-minors.
A graduate minor requires a minimum of 10 hours of graduate-level coursework in at least three courses. The student must receive a grade of “B” or better or “S” in each course comprising the graduate minor. The completed graduate minor will appear on the student’s transcript after the student has completed the transcript designation form available through GRADFORMS. Only one course may overlap between the graduate degree and the graduate minor. The minor must be completed prior to graduation.
College of Public Health Graduate Certificates
To be eligible to pursue a graduate certificate, all students must have earned a bachelor’s degree. Current Public Health graduate students may pursue a College of Public Health graduate certificate by completing the courses outlined for the program. Any current Ohio State graduate student should use a certificate declaration form found on the college website: https://go.osu.edu/cphcertificate to declare the certificate. Non-degree students must apply through Graduate and Professional Admissions as a graduate non-degree student in order to enroll in classes and complete the graduate certificate. https://gpadmissions.osu.edu/programs/program.aspx?prog=0103#&&tab=apply
The College currently offers graduate certificates in Biostatistics, in Environmental Public Health Risk Assessment, in Global One Health, in Health Services Research and in Occupational Safety and Health. Specific guidelines including credit hours and courses that comprise the certificate are on the College’s website: https://cph.osu.edu/students/public-health-minors.
Graduate certificate programs must consist of at least 12 credit hours. Students must achieve a cumulative graduate GPA of at least a 3.0 to be considered for the awarding of a certificate. Only grades of “A” through “B-,” as well as “S,” may be counted toward the completion of the certificate program. Students pursuing a graduate degree in the College of Public Health may overlap a maximum of 6 credits with their graduate degree and the certificate. Students may not transfer graduate credits earned at another institution to a graduate certificate program. Students have five years to complete the graduate certificate because course offerings can change and requirements may change.
Students who finished or are finishing the final coursework for the certificate need to complete the Application for Certificate Completion no later than the third Friday of the autumn or spring semester (or third Friday of summer term) in which completion from the student’s certificate program is expected.
The Graduate School outlines specific guidelines and lists all minors and certificate in Section 8.0 of the Graduate School Handbook: https://gradsch.osu.edu/graduate-school-handbook-gsh/gsh-section-8-special-graduate-programs#section8.0.
