Information on the admission process is available on the Office of Undergraduate Admissions website. Applications may be submitted via the Common Application.

Supporting documents not submitted online should be mailed to:

Office of Undergraduate Admissions
The George Washington University
800 21st Street NW, Suite 100
Washington, DC 20052

Contact for questions:

gwadm@gwu.edu or 202-994-6040

The following requirements must be fulfilled: 120 credits, including 20 credits in University General Education Requirement courses, 56 to 57 credits in health data science core courses, 10 credits in health data science guided elective courses, and 33 to 34 credits in general elective courses.

SPH University General Education Requirement
One course in critical thinking in the humanities.
Two courses in critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, or scientific reasoning in the social sciences.
For exercise science and nutrition majors, this requirement must be fulfilled with one of the following: ANTH 1002, ANTH 1003, or ANTH 1004.
For public health majors, students are encouraged to take ECON 1011 as a General Education social science course, as it is a prerequisite for PUBH 3130.
One course that has an approved oral communication component .
For exercise science and nutrition majors, this requirement must be fulfilled with either COMM 1040 or COMM 1041.
For public health majors, students can chose any of the following pre-approved oral communication courses: AMST 2450, AMST 2620, ANTH 1004, ANTH 2502, CHEM 2118W, COMM 1040, COMM 1041, EAP 1010, ECON 4198W, ENGL 1365, ENGL 3918, GTCH 2003, GTCH 3101, HSSJ 4195, ORSC 2000, PHIL 2124 or PHIL 2124W, PHIL 2134, SLHS 1011, SOC 4192, SOC 4195 or SOC 4195W, SPAN 3022, SUST 2004, WLP 1020
One course in quantitative reasoning.
For exercise science and nutrition majors, this requirement must be fulfilled with one of the following: STAT 1051, STAT 1053, or STAT 1127.
Public health majors should avoid taking STAT 1051, STAT 1053, STAT 1111 or STAT 1127.
One course in scientific reasoning with laboratory experience.
For exercise science and nutrition majors, this requirement must be fulfilled with BISC 1111.
For public health majors, this requirements must be fulfilled with one of the following: BISC 1005, BISC 1006, BISC 1007, BISC 1008, BISC 1111, BISC 1112 or HONR 1033 Biology.
UW 1020University Writing
or HONR 1015 (Origins and Evolution of Modern Thought)
After successful completion of UW 1020 or HONR 1015, 6 credits distributed over at least two different Writing in the Disciplines (WID) courses taken in separate semesters (summer counts as one semester) are required. WID courses are designated by a "W" appended to the course number.

 Approved courses can be found under University General Education Requirement.

Required core courses
PUBH 4201Practical Computing
or CSCI 1011 Introduction to Programming with Java
or CSCI 1012 Introduction to Programming with Python
PUBH 4202Bioinformatics Algorithms and Data Structures
or CSCI 1112 Algorithms and Data Structures
PUBH 1142Introduction to Health Data Science
PUBH 1242Health Data Mining
PUBH 2242Natural Language Processing for Healthcare
PUBH 3242Health Data Visualization
MATH 1231Single-Variable Calculus I
MATH 1232Single-Variable Calculus II
BISC 1111Introductory Biology: Cells and Molecules
PUBH 2110Public Health Biology
or BISC 1112 Introductory Biology: The Biology of Organisms
PUBH 2142Introduction to Biostatistics for Public Health
STAT 2118Regression Analysis
or STAT 2183 Intermediate Statistics Lab/Packages
STAT 3157Introduction to Mathematical Statistics I
PUBH 1010First-Year Experience in Public Health
PUBH 1101Introduction to Public Health and Health Services
PUBH 2140Foundations of Research Methods
PUBH 3131Epidemiology
PUBH 3136Health Law
or PUBH 3151 Current Issues in Bioethics
PUBH 4199Independent Study
Electives
43 to 44 credits in elective courses, including 10 credits in health data science guided elective courses (below) and 33 to 34 credits in general elective courses. Most courses offered by GW can be taken as general electives. Students are encouraged to meet with their advisor to help select these courses. No more than 3 credits in Lifestyle, Sport, and Physical Activity (LSPA) courses can be counted toward the 120 credits required for the bachelor's degree. LSPA courses count as general electives,

No more than 9 of these credits can be taken through study abroad programs and/or at non-GW domestic institutions. For topics courses, only the specific topic indicated below can be counted toward this requirement. Students can petition the BS in public health program director for approval to use a GW course not listed here as an elective. No more than 3 credits in Lifestyle, Sport, and Physical Activity (LSPA) courses can be counted toward the 120 credits required for the bachelor's degree. LSPA courses count as general electives.

Health data science guided electives
Biochemistry
BIOC 3820Bioinformatics and Computational Biochemistry
Biological sciences
BISC 2207Genetics
BISC 2213Biology of Cancer
BISC 2214Developmental Biology
BISC 2336Introductory Microbiology
BISC 2583Biology of Proteins
BISC 2585Biometry
Biomedical engineering
BME 3825Medical Measurement Laboratory
BME 4482Medical Measurements
Computer science
CSCI 1112Algorithms and Data Structures
CSCI 1121Introduction to C Programming
CSCI 1132Data Structures and Software Design
CSCI 1311Discrete Structures I
CSCI 2312Discrete Structures II
CSCI 2441Database Systems and Team Projects
CSCI 3212Algorithms
CSCI 3362Probability for Computer Science
CSCI 4341Continuous Algorithms
CSCI 4342Computational Linear Algebra and Applications
CSCI 4364Machine Learning
CSCI 4576Introduction to Biomedical Computing
CSCI 4577Biomedical Computing
Data science
DATS 2101Ethical Life in a Digital World
DATS 2102Data Visualization for Data Science
DATS 2103Data Mining for Data Science
DATS 2104Data Warehousing for Data Science
Economics
ECON 2123Introduction to Econometrics
ECON 3105Economic Forecasting
ECON 3148Health Economics
Electrical and eomputer engineering
ECE 1120C Programming for Electrical and Computer Engineering
ECE 1125Data Structures and Algorithms for ECE
ECE 3220Introduction to Digital Signal Processing
ECE 3225Signal and Image Analysis
Mathematics
MATH 2184Linear Algebra I
MATH 2233Multivariable Calculus
MATH 3125Linear Algebra II
MATH 3342Ordinary Differential Equations
MATH 3359Introduction to Mathematical Modeling
MATH 3553Introduction to Numerical Analysis
MATH 3740Computational Complexity
MATH 4239Real Analysis I
MATH 4240Real Analysis II
Mechanical and aerospace engineering
MAE 1117Introduction to Engineering Computations
Physics
PHYS 3100Math Methods for Physics
PHYS 3181Computational Physics
Public health
PUBH 3201Introduction to Bioinformatics
PUBH 3202Introduction to Genomics
PUBH 3995Undergraduate Research in Public Health *
Statistics
STAT 2123Introduction to Econometrics
STAT 2183WIntermediate Statistical Laboratory: Statistical Computing Packages
STAT 3119Design and Analysis of Experiments
STAT 4158Introduction to Mathematical Statistics II
STAT 4181Applied Time Series Analysis
STAT 4188Nonparametric Statistics Inference
STAT 4189Mathematical Probability and Applications I
STAT 4190Mathematical Probability and Applications II
STAT 4197Fundamentals of SAS Programming for Data Management

*Up to 9 credits in Undergraduate Research and/or Independent Study can be counted toward the major. These courses must be taken for a letter grade; if graded on a Pass/No Pass (P/NP), they cannot be counted toward the major requirements.