Department of Health Sciences

The Department of Health Sciences offers academic programs that exemplify interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary collaboration that mirrors today’s health care service delivery and community wellness priorities.

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 degrees in health science (M.S.) and physician assistant studies (M.S.) and graduate certificates in autism studies and clinician-administrator transition (CAT)

Contact Information

Department of Health Sciences

Linthicum Hall, Room 101

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Hours

Mon - Fri: 8:00am - 5:00pm

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