Allied Health Sciences Major
An undergraduate degree in Allied Health Sciences prepares you for immediate employment in a variety of health fields including case management/patient care coordination, health education, medical billing and account management, health marketing and sales, laboratory research, health insurance administration, and more. Your degree will also prepare you for admission to graduate and/or professional schools and programs that require a bachelor's degree, such as medical school, dental school, physician assistant, physical therapy, public health, health promotion sciences, etc.
Your assigned academic advisor will work with you to develop a plan of study that includes university general education requirements and coursework covering a broad range of health and health care topics that also fulfill graduate health program admission requirements. Specific requirements will vary based on your intended concentration and career path. Courses are available in a broad range of health and health care topics or disciplines.
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AHS Major Concentrations
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AHS Major
Our major is designed for students who seek a broad training in Allied Health Sciences in preparation for general health careers or graduate and professional programs. The plan is flexible so that you can tailor your plan of study to meet your career goals.
Concentration in Health Sciences Track A (formerly Standard Plan) and Track B (formerly HESC Concentration)
Students can choose Track A or Track B within this concentration to further align their courses towards graduate programs or interests. Track A is geared towards programs including but not limited to Physician Assistant/Associate, Physical Therapy, Post-Baccalaureate Nursing, and Occupational Therapy programs. Track B is geared towards programs including but not limited to Medical School, Dental School, Optometry, and Pharmacy programs.
Concentration in Healthcare Administration
This may be the concentration for you if you're considering an administrative or managerial career in settings like hospitals, clinics, government planning and regulatory agencies, health maintenance organizations, hospital associations, consulting firms, computer vendors, health insurance companies, hospital equipment and supplies manufacturers, etc. This concentration is for students seeking employment or admission into graduate programs in public health, health administration, health insurance studies, corporate health, health policy and law, etc.
Concentration in Public Health & Health Promotion
If you're interested in working in social service agencies, worksite health promotion programs, government health agencies, hospital wellness programs, or business/industry/educational settings that emphasize health and health promotion to minimize the risk and impacts of disease, you may wish to consider this concentration. This concentration is designed to prepare you for positions in public health, health education, and counseling fields as well as for admission to graduate programs including the Department's Master's in Health Promotion Sciences, Master's in Public Health, gerontology, health education, health psychology, healthcare administration, or healthcare policy.
Concentration in Digital Health and Technology
This plan prepares students interested in the rapid integration of digital health technologies into our healthcare systems. Digital health and health technology work to make healthcare more efficient, accessible, and personalized through the application of various tools and technologies like mobile health, personalized medicine, wearable devices, and emerging health technologies, aiming to improve the quality of care and health outcomes.
The digital health and technology concentration fuses communication, designs and information systems, social implications and ethics, and innovation and entrepreneurship with the health sciences, preparing students to solve some of our largest and emerging health issues. This concentration is ideal for students who want to work within entry level careers in the digital health field. It is also designed for students seeking admission into graduate programs such as the Department of Allied Health Sciences Master’s Program in Health Promotion as well as for those looking to enroll in graduate programs such as Public Health, Health Administration, Data Science, Health Informatics, Health Information Systems, Management, among others.
Concentration in Genetic and Genomic Sciences
The Genetic and Genomic Sciences Concentration in Allied Health Sciences is designed for students interested in applied genetics, including laboratory genetics and genetic counseling. This concentration may prepare students for employment in research or clinical laboratories and provides a strong foundation for those planning to pursue graduate studies in healthcare genetics, such as genetic counseling. As precision medicine continues to expand, genomics plays an increasingly critical role in understanding how genetic variation shapes human health and disease. As a concentration, this provides a complementary path and coursework for students who are not seeking a major enrollment in a professional program (e.g., DGS/MLS). This concentration does not include a clinical placement and does not meet requirements for an ASCP credential upon program completion.
The Allied Health program at UConn is an incredible major to pursue for any students considering healthcare routes as the program offers a multitude of specific routes to learn about and experience skills in. Taking a chance on experiential learning was the best and most important decision I made in the past four years, and I am very grateful for it! Alex Torres-Munoz AHS’25 (ADOPHD: Stratford Health District)
