Undergraduate Programs

University of South Dakota

• USD Public Health bachelor's degree
• Focuses on assessing population health needs, planning and evaluating programs, and communicating and advocating for health promotion.
• USD Public Health minor
• Adds public health foundations to any major, with content commonly covering topics like social determinants of health, population level burden of disease, and health policy.

South Dakota State University

• SDSU Health Studies bachelor's degree
• Prepares students to use program planning, policy analysis, and education to change conditions and systems that affect health.
• SDSU Rural Health Certificate
• Open to students from any major and focused on rural health challenges and care delivery models like telehealth and mobile clinics.

Dakota State University

• DSU Health Informatics & Information Management - B.S.
• Offered online or hybrid and oriented toward managing health information systems and electronic records, which aligns well with public health informatics and population health data roles.

Northern State University

• Northern State University - Health Minor
• Includes coursework such as Community Health and Health Promotion and Advocacy.

Black Hills State University

• Wichozani Health & Wellness Certificate
• Includes coursework such as Native American Public Health and is designed as an Indigenous health and wellness education pathway.

South Dakota Mines

• Pre-Professional Health Sciences bachelor's degree
• A flexible health sciences pathway that can pair well with later public health graduate study or population health interests.

Graduate Programs

University of South Dakota

• USD Master of Public Health Program
• Online MPH with coursework across the five core public health areas, described as preparing leaders to address public health needs of rural communities.
• USD Graduate Public Health Certificate
• Designed to complement many health professions by covering key public health concepts.

South Dakota State University

• SDSU Master of Public Health Program
• Online MPH designed to be flexible for full time or part time study.
• SDSU Graduate Public Health Certificate
• A collaborative offering with the University of South Dakota focused on fundamental public health concepts including introductory public health, epidemiology, and applying concepts through program development.

Dakota State University

• Master of Science in Health Informatics and Information Management
• Graduate pathway aligned with informatics leadership and health data governance roles that often sit inside population health and public health systems.