Our interdisciplinary program helps healthcare professionals become advanced practitioners, researchers, managers and educators - and Seton Hall is one of only two schools in New Jersey to offer the health sciences doctorate.

Whether your ultimate goals are in the classroom or the boardroom, as a clinician or a researcher, the Seton Hall Ph.D. in Health Sciences program offers a relevant specialization track. Our students can choose to focus on health professions leadership, movement science or speech-language pathology.

Students choose to study full- or part-time. Our classes meet once a week in the evening, using a synchronous online model of learning. Students can complete the synchronous online program plan in 6-years part-time or 3 ½ years full-time.

We Aim to Prepare Health Scientists Who

• Exhibit communication, educational and research skills to serve as active contributors to the healthcare system;
• Consider ethical values and principles fundamental to the provision and receipt of healthcare services and research;
• Use pedagogical and organizational skills necessary to deliver healthcare in an efficient and effective manner;
• Critically appraise health science literature and apply the appropriate principles and procedures to the recognition, evaluation, interpretation, and understanding of current issues;
• Apply the principles of scientific inquiry to investigate problems at the frontiers of knowledge; and
• Demonstrate knowledge and sensitivity of culturally diverse populations and their attitudes toward health and illness.