Department of Health Sciences

The Department of Health Sciences uses a broad, integrative and evidence-based approach that prepares tomorrow’s health leaders for careers in a number of diverse and rapidly growing fields. We prepare students for growing job opportunities as public health professionals, health care managers, planners, gerontologists, autism-focused professionals and other clinicians and health care specialists.

What We Offer

• one of the only two undergraduate health care management programs in the state of Maryland fully certified by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration
• a public health program that prepares students to work in a variety of settings and/ or pursue a graduate degree
• an allied health program that is Towson University’s only fully online undergraduate major (this program is open to practicing clinicians with an associate degree in a technical field) 
• internship opportunities in the areas of gerontology, health care management and public health
• honor societies for gerontology, health care management, and health science
• a health science minor that prepares students tobecome Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES),
• graduate degree in health science (M.S.) and graduate certificates in autism studies and clinician-administrator transition (CAT)