BS in Health Science

Why Earn Your BS in Health Science at Sacred Heart?

At SHU, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of the health care system and its many specialties -- allowing you to create a flexible career path in the health field, or continue to graduate school to obtain an advanced health care degree in physical therapy, occupational therapy, physician assistant studies, public health, pre-accelerated nursing and more.

In the BS in Health Science program, you will also:

• Learn to evaluate trends in health care and its systems, policies and environments
• Understand health care inequities and how to prioritize approaches to health care access
• Develop leadership skills for strategic planning and professional management
• Study in a well-rounded health care curriculum that pairs well with future graduate work
• Apply epidemiological analysis to health data, and apply biological, cultural and social determinants of health and their effects on health equality
• Identify approaches to health care system diversity and demonstrate cultural competence in personal and professional interactions
• Develop ethical standards, values and attitudes appropriate to health care professionals

Benefit from a flexible course of study

Full-time and part-time programs available. Part-time students have the opportunity to earn their degree fully online. 

Choose your focus and shape your career path

Students choose one of the following health science concentrations.

Health Care Administration

Prepares students for graduate programs and for administrative practices, including supervision, strategic planning, change management, policy and fiscal responsibility.

Public Health

Readies students for a graduate program in public health, professional graduate programs or employment in private and government public health agencies and institutions.

Global Health

Prepares students to thrive in a competitive, globalized healthcare setting or graduate programs in public health or global health and professional graduate programs.

Radiography

Prepares students to sit for the licensing exam to be radiography technicians and/or move on to a professional graduate program in healthcare.

Dietetics & Nutrition

With a Nutrition & Dietetics concentration, you can enter a high-demand field in diverse areas of practice like acute, long-term care; community, federal and state programs; food service; policy and public health.

Student Planning & Advising

Students are assigned to the Health Science Program academic advisor or a Health Science faculty member for assistance and advice throughout their academic career.

Pioneers in Public Health Scholarship Program

Sacred Heart University is looking to expand the public health workforce by providing scholarship funding to support training in public health. Through generous funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration, this program will provide scholarship support up to $20,000 for eligible students enrolled in the SHU MPH program, the SHU 4+1 BSHS-MPH program, and the SHU BS - Health Science Public Health or BS - Health Sciences Global Health programs. To apply, email Christina Gunther, Ed.D.

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Dual Degree Program Options for Health Science Majors

Sacred Heart University’s dual degree programs provide a defined pathway for incoming freshmen to move seamlessly from an undergraduate to a graduate degree.

While some of our dual degree programs require specific undergraduate majors, others are open to almost all undergraduate disciplines. Apply to a dual degree program as an incoming freshman and you’ll have the opportunity to be admitted directly into the graduate program of your choice at the same time as your admission as an undergraduate student. Students are encouraged to reach out to your admissions counselor to discuss dual degree options.