The Industrial Hygiene Program offers a part-time program taking advantage of courses offered in the evening and weekends in the greater Washington area as well as in the Environmental Health Sciences Summer Institute. This program trains students in the aspects of environmental hygiene, including indoor and outdoor pollution measurement, air pollution control, and risk assessment. Students in this program can receive an M.H.S or Ph.D. degree. Students usually devote 9-12 months to academic work and the remainder to a special study project, the report of which will be submitted as a master's essay. This may be satisfied by a field or laboratory study, supervised work experience, or a critical literature search.
Students can usually complete the requirements in two years.
The requirements for the Sc. M. program are described in Academic Information. Doctoral degree programs include the doctor of public health, doctor of science, and doctor of philosophy programs. The requirements for the doctoral programs are described in detail in Academic Information. The doctoral programs include academic work and original research study in one or more scientific areas underlying the environmental health engineering field.