Do one year master's degrees exist?

[medtech]

There was a thread on one year masters degrees but it was from a very long time ago....so I decided to start a new one.

 

I've done some research about course based masters degrees and there seems to be no masters degrees that are actually one year (the shortest I've found is 16 months...)

 

I'm just wondering because western does not let you apply in the middle of a masters degree and I want to peruse a masters, at the same time I would like to apply to medical school next year if I don't get in this year.

 

does anyone know if western will allow you to leave a 2 year course based masters for med school?

[small_town_girl]

One-year degrees definitely exist.......just maybe not in the program/schools you're looking at??

[Genemo]

It does but not each major in each school has it.

[future_doc]

There you go:

 

I'm about to start a one-year master's at Queen's. It's in epidemiology and biostatistics. It's a course-based program with a practicum at the end...not sure if that's the kind of program you're interested in...

[medtech]

I looked up that as well. the MSc in epi is two years..... does anyone know any masters in Ontario that's one year? Which schools or programs should I be looking at is probably a better question...

 

http://www.queensu.ca/sgs/program/health-sciences/epidemiology.html

 

"Degrees Offered / Length of Program

M.Sc.: 2 years

Ph.D.: 4 years"

[small_town_girl]

I'm doing epi with specialization in biostatistics....not just epi:

http://www.queensu.ca/biostat/prospective/degrees.html

[DanInVan]

One of my friends did a one year MBA at Windsor.

[medZ]

I believe McMaster has a 1 year program in Global Health

 

http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/global_health_masters/program_format.html

[gryphon]

Human Health and Nutritional Sciences coursework masters at U of Guelph -

3 semesters, so 12 months

[medtech]

thanks everyone , if u could paste a link along with the name of the program, that'd be great. This is helping my search so much, I love this this forum!

[gryphon]

Here's the link for Guelph from the department:

http://www.uoguelph.ca/hhns/grad/graduate.shtml

 

And this one's from the Graduate Calendar:

http://www.uoguelph.ca/registrar/calendars/graduate/current/gradprog/hbns-msc.shtml

[ott8]

If you can afford it, schools in the states are an option. I'm in a one year masters of health science at Johns Hopkins at the moment.

[medtech]

If you can afford it, schools in the states are an option. I'm in a one year masters of health science at Johns Hopkins at the moment.

 

"Academic MHS programs provide opportunities for advanced study and research. At a minimum, programs require 4 terms of full-time coursework, a written culmination such as a thesis, essay or other written exercise, and an oral presentation. Academic MHS programs are offered by the following departments of the School"

 

is four terms one year or two year? I'm at the university of western Ontario and we do semesters only...

[KBrothers]

University of Oxford in England has an MSc in Medical Anthropology lasting 1 year (2 semesters of classes, then 1 semester of exams and dissertation writing). Not sure about how it would work for funding with Canadian students, but I did the course with a lot of US students who had attracted sponsorship/funding from orgs such as Rotary. They all went on to marvellous things (Harvard med school etc.). It was a fascinating course, incidentally.