MPH Programs in North Carolina

Which North Carolina MPH Suits You

For the widest choice of concentrations, Gillings. UNC-Chapel Hill’s residential MPH offers 11 concentrations, from Applied Epidemiology and Global Health to Nutrition and Dietetics and Population Health for Clinicians. You apply twice: SOPHAS first, then a UNC Graduate School supplemental application. For the next entering class, the priority deadlines are December 1, 2026 for SOPHAS and December 15 for the Graduate School.

For online study, four choices at very different prices. MPH@UNC is 42 credits at $1,735 per credit, with concentrations in Applied Epidemiology, Leadership in Practice, Health Policy, and Nutrition, Food Systems and Health. Wingate’s online MPH costs $820 per credit, for estimated tuition of $34,440 before fees, with epidemiology and health education tracks. East Carolina’s online MPH goes through SOPHAS and offers epidemiology, community health and health policy concentrations. Lenoir-Rhyne’s online community health MPH lets you waive the GRE.

For a campus program outside the Triangle, UNC Charlotte or UNC Greensboro. UNC Charlotte’s MPH is 42 credit hours on campus, with Community Health Practice, Epidemiology and Health Policy concentrations, and no GRE. UNCG’s MPH in Community Health Education is 45 credit hours, typically two years full time or three part time.

For public health alongside pharmacy, business or physician assistant study, Campbell. Campbell University in Buies Creek offers a CEPH-accredited MS in Public Health, typically two years full time, with dual degrees paired with the PharmD, the MBA or the physician assistant master’s. Among the rest, East Carolina awarded 100 public health master’s degrees in 2022-23 and UNC Charlotte 86, second and third in the state behind Gillings.

Duke isn’t on CEPH’s list, but it offers an MS in Global Health and a Master of Biostatistics if research or data science is your goal.

What North Carolina Residency Is Worth at UNC

At UNC-Chapel Hill, residency decides how much the residential MPH costs. For fall 2026 and spring 2027, North Carolina residents pay $1,146.12 per credit hour, capped at $10,315.00 a semester. Non-residents pay $2,140.56 per credit hour, up to $19,265.00 a semester.

The online MPH@UNC works differently: it’s $1,735.00 per credit hour, and that rate is listed without a resident discount. A North Carolina resident pays less for the campus program; an out-of-state student may find the online rate below the non-resident campus rate.

If you want to work with community health workers, NCDHHS’s Office of Rural Health points CHWs to a nine-competency core training taught at community colleges across the state. Compare more options on the online MPH programs page, or see the MPH scholarships guide.