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.
Code | Title | Credits |
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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, must be satisfied with one of the following: ANTH 1002, ANTH 1003, or ANTH 1004. | ||
One course that has an approved oral communication component, For exercise science and nutrition majors, must be satisfied with either COMM 1040 or COMM 1041. | ||
One course in quantitative reasoning. For exercise science and nutrition majors, must be satisfied with one of the following: STAT 1051, STAT 1053, or STAT 1127. | ||
One course in scientific reasoning with laboratory experience. For exercise science and nutrition majors, must be satisfied with BISC 1111. | ||
UW 1020 | University 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.
Code | Title | Credits |
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Required core courses | ||
PUBH 4201 | Practical Computing | |
or CSCI 1011 | Introduction to Programming with Java | |
or CSCI 1012 | Introduction to Programming with Python | |
PUBH 4202 | Bioinformatics Algorithms and Data Structures | |
or CSCI 1112 | Algorithms and Data Structures | |
PUBH 1142 | Introduction to Health Data Science | |
PUBH 1242 | Health Data Mining | |
PUBH 2242 | Natural Language Processing for Healthcare | |
PUBH 3242 | Health Data Visualization | |
MATH 1231 | Single-Variable Calculus I | |
MATH 1232 | Single-Variable Calculus II | |
BISC 1111 | Introductory Biology: Cells and Molecules | |
PUBH 2110 | Public Health Biology | |
or BISC 1112 | Introductory Biology: The Biology of Organisms | |
PUBH 2142 | Introduction to Biostatistics for Public Health | |
STAT 2118 | Regression Analysis | |
or STAT 2183 | Intermediate Statistics Lab/Packages | |
STAT 3157 | Introduction to Mathematical Statistics I | |
PUBH 1010 | First-Year Experience in Public Health | |
PUBH 1101 | Introduction to Public Health and Health Services | |
PUBH 2140 | Foundations of Research Methods | |
PUBH 3131 | Epidemiology | |
PUBH 3136 | Health Law | |
or PUBH 3151 | Current Issues in Bioethics | |
PUBH 4199 | Independent 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, |
Health data science guided electives
Code | Title | Credits |
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Biochemistry | ||
BIOC 3820 | Bioinformatics and Computational Biochemistry | |
Biological sciences | ||
BISC 2207 | Genetics | |
BISC 2213 | Biology of Cancer | |
BISC 2214 | Developmental Biology | |
BISC 2336 | Introductory Microbiology | |
BISC 2583 | Biology of Proteins | |
BISC 2585 | Biometry | |
Biomedical engineering | ||
BME 3825 | Medical Measurement Laboratory | |
BME 4482 | Medical Measurements | |
Computer science | ||
CSCI 1112 | Algorithms and Data Structures | |
CSCI 1121 | Introduction to C Programming | |
CSCI 1132 | Data Structures and Software Design | |
CSCI 1311 | Discrete Structures I | |
CSCI 2312 | Discrete Structures II | |
CSCI 2441 | Database Systems and Team Projects | |
CSCI 3212 | Algorithms | |
CSCI 3362 | Probability for Computer Science | |
CSCI 4341 | Continuous Algorithms | |
CSCI 4342 | Computational Linear Algebra and Applications | |
CSCI 4364 | Machine Learning | |
CSCI 4572 | Computational Biology | |
CSCI 4576 | Introduction to Biomedical Computing | |
CSCI 4577 | Biomedical Computing | |
Data science | ||
DATS 2101 | Ethical Life in a Digital World | |
DATS 2102 | Data Visualization for Data Science | |
DATS 2103 | Data Mining for Data Science | |
DATS 2104 | Data Warehousing for Data Science | |
Economics | ||
ECON 2123 | Introduction to Econometrics | |
ECON 3105 | Economic Forecasting | |
ECON 3148 | Health Economics | |
Electrical and eomputer engineering | ||
ECE 1120 | C Programming for Electrical and Computer Engineering | |
ECE 1125 | Data Structures and Algorithms for ECE | |
ECE 3220 | Introduction to Digital Signal Processing | |
ECE 3225 | Signal and Image Analysis | |
Mathematics | ||
MATH 2184 | Linear Algebra I | |
MATH 2233 | Multivariable Calculus | |
MATH 3125 | Linear Algebra II | |
MATH 3342 | Ordinary Differential Equations | |
MATH 3359 | Introduction to Mathematical Modeling | |
MATH 3553 | Introduction to Numerical Analysis | |
MATH 3740 | Computational Complexity | |
MATH 4239 | Real Analysis I | |
MATH 4240 | Real Analysis II | |
Mechanical and aerospace engineering | ||
MAE 1117 | Introduction to Engineering Computations | |
Physics | ||
PHYS 3100 | Math Methods for Physics | |
PHYS 3181 | Computational Physics | |
Public health | ||
PUBH 3201 | Introduction to Bioinformatics | |
PUBH 3202 | Introduction to Genomics | |
PUBH 3995 | Undergraduate Research | |
Statistics | ||
STAT 2123 | Introduction to Econometrics | |
STAT 2183W | Intermediate Statistical Laboratory: Statistical Computing Packages | |
STAT 3119 | Design and Analysis of Experiments | |
STAT 4158 | Introduction to Mathematical Statistics II | |
STAT 4181 | Applied Time Series Analysis | |
STAT 4188 | Nonparametric Statistics Inference | |
STAT 4189 | Mathematical Probability and Applications I | |
STAT 4190 | Mathematical Probability and Applications II | |
STAT 4197 | Fundamentals of SAS Programming for Data Management |