Program Co-Directors: Ali Rahnavard, Marcos Pérez Losada 

The Milken Institute School of Public Health offers a dual bachelor of science with a major in health data science (BS) and master of science in health data science, bioinformatics concentration (MS) degree. The program allows students to take up to 9 graduate credits as part of their undergraduate degree, thereby decreasing the number of credits normally required for the master's degree. All requirements for both degrees must be fulfilled.

Students interested in the dual degree program should confer with the graduate advisor. Visit the program website for additional information.

Credit sharing: 9 credits

MS courses taken during the BS program and corresponding BS courses waived:
PUBH 6854Applied Computing in Health Data Science
One of the following BS courses is waived:
CSCI 1011
Introduction to Programming with Java
or CSCI 1012
 Introduction to Programming with Python
or PUBH 4201
 Practical Computing
PUBH 6884Bioinformatics Algorithms and Data Structures
One of the following BS courses is waived:
CSCI 1112
Algorithms and Data Structures
or PUBH 4202
 Bioinformatics Algorithms and Data Structures
PUBH 6860Principles of Bioinformatics
or PUBH 6861 Public Health Genomics
or PUBH 6886 Statistical and Machine Learning for Public Health Research
One of the following BS courses is waived:
CSCI 4364
Machine Learning
PUBH 3201
Introduction to Bioinformatics
PUBH 3202
Introduction to Genomics

Visit the BS in health data science and MS in health data science program websites for additional information about the individual programs.