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  1. I had to reply to the initial reply which is riddled with false statements. Full disclosure: I currently work for BUSPH (and have attended as a student) and have previously worked in a number of global health organizations. SPH and the med school have 0 affiliation other than both being on the med campus of Boston University. 0. The commenter might be confusing the fact that BUSPH most likely needs to pay a lot of money to BUMC--this is the medical campus, not the med school. BUMC owns all the buildings, maintains all the conference rooms, pays all the utilities, handles security, and handles many other general services. BUSPH pays for the space it uses and all the related costs. The med school and dental school do the same thing. At two of my global health jobs we very much preferred hiring BU MPHers, especially over Harvard and Yale (only picking on them because due to geography we got a lot of applicants from these schools). This isn't a knock on those great schools, but the fact that the BU MPH is more practical in design and the graduates tend to be more ready to jump into the trenches so to speak. They interviewed better. Many of the other top ten schools of public health are a bit more research and publications focused. BU is expensive. It does not have a huge endowment and it does not receive much public funding. It does end up around $60k to get an MPH, but almost no one pays the whole thing themselves. If you can score a full time job at BU (not hard, they are one of the largest employers in the state) you can get tuition remission (it would take 2.5 years to get the MPH this way). The majority of students receive some sort of aid (grant/fellowship) package as well. Most of my friends who went here paid about 25-35k of their own money. I'll also point out that BU is about the same price as many of the other elite schools of public health, other than the ones that are part of state university systems.
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