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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2020

Monetary and Nonmonetary Costs and Benefits of a Public Health Master's Degree in the 21st Century.

Angela J Beck, Jonathon P Leider, Heather Krasna, Beth A Resnick

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Article in American journal of public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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4 authors.

Angela J BeckAngela J. Beck is with the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor. Jonathon P. Leider is with the Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis. Heather Krasna is with the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, and the Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Beth A. Resnick is with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
Jonathon P LeiderAngela J. Beck is with the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor. Jonathon P. Leider is with the Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis. Heather Krasna is with the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, and the Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Beth A. Resnick is with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
Heather KrasnaAngela J. Beck is with the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor. Jonathon P. Leider is with the Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis. Heather Krasna is with the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, and the Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Beth A. Resnick is with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
Beth A ResnickAngela J. Beck is with the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor. Jonathon P. Leider is with the Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis. Heather Krasna is with the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, and the Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Beth A. Resnick is with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As postsecondary tuition and debt levels continue to rise, the value proposition of higher education has been increasingly called into question by the popular media and the general public. Recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics now show early career earnings and debt, by program, for thousands of institutions across the United States. This comes at an inflection point for public health education-master's degrees have seen 20 years of growth, but forecasts now call for, at best, stagnation.Forces inside and outside the field of public health are shifting supply and demand for public health master's degrees. We discuss these forces and identify potential monetary and nonmonetary costs and benefits of these degrees.Overall, we found a net benefit in career outcomes associated with a public health master's degree, although it is clear that some other master's degrees likely offer greater lifetime earning potentials or lower lifetime debt associated with degree attainment. We outline the issues academic public health must engage in to successfully attract and train the next generation of public health graduates.

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Salaries and Fringe BenefitsCareer ChoiceCost-Benefit AnalysisEducation, GraduateEmploymentHumansPublic HealthTraining SupportUnited States

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PMID32437275
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