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Advance your safety career

Do you like to help others, improve lives and keep people safe? Accredited by the , under the commission’s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Safety, the MS in occupational safety and health at ¹Ï×ÓTV State University will help you take the next step in your safety career. Complete your degree in 30-33 credit hours.  No GRE Required!

Choose your concentration

• Risk Management 
• Industrial Hygiene 
• Environmental Health and Safety

Competitive tuition

¹Ï×ÓTV State University offers competitive tuition rates.

Admission requirements

• Meet the ¹Ï×ÓTV State University admission requirements.
• No GRE required!
• Additional requirements for unconditional and conditional admissions are as follows.

Unconditional admission

Unconditional admission status is granted only to students who graduate from ¹Ï×ÓTV State University with a BS degree with a minimum overall GPA of 3.00.

Conditional admission

Conditional admission status is granted to students with an undergraduate GPA of 2.75 but less than 3.00. To change to unconditional status, the student must meet the university requirement of obtaining a 3.00 in the first nine hours of graduate work and additional criteria set forth by the Department of Occupational Safety and Health.Students admitted from a different undergraduate field/discipline must complete the following coursework in addition to the above GPA requirements. 

• • OSH 601 - Fundamentals of Occupational Safety & Health for Graduate Studies (4) with a minimum grade of B

The following courses are minimum accepted requirements for pursuing a master's degree in occupational safety and health. 

• One (1) science course with lab

• One (1) math course

Curriculum

VIEW THE OSH MS CURRICULUM

View the OSH course list and descriptions

Graduation requirements

• All students enrolled in the Master of Science in Occupational Safety and Health (MS OSH) program must earn a minimum grade of C in all OSH graduate-level coursework.

• Any OSH course in which a grade below a C is earned must be repeated.

• A student may enroll in an OSH course a maximum of two times; this includes audits and withdrawals after the first week of class. Exceptions will only be considered in cases where a student is required to withdraw due to a documented, life-changing event unrelated to academic performance.

• If a grade below a C is earned in the same OSH course for a second time, the course may not be repeated, and the student will be dismissed from the program and will not be eligible for readmission.

• Students must maintain a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.00 to remain in good standing and to graduate from the MS OSH program.

In accordance with departmental guidelines, each student's program is developed in consultation with their advisor.