New Master of Public Health at ACE $9225

[ashkir]

I also found CEPH seems to only be required for government jobs. My local public health offices have officials from non CEPH schools, etc.

Your local public health offices are not owned by the government? 

I haven't seen that CEPH is required for many government jobs. It's mostly required for academic jobs. USPHS is the one government employer I can recall that requires CEPH accreditation. If you search CEPH at USAJobs.gov, which lists the majority of federal openings, only nine results come up, and they're all for the VA. CEPH is not even required for those openings. CEPH was just one of several programmatic accreditations listed as "preferred." 

If you search CEPH at GovernmentJobs.com, which lists over 50,000 state/local/federal jobs, there are currently only three results. Do a search on Indeed, and almost all of the results are for academia. 

Of course, just because CEPH isn't mentioned on a job ad doesn't mean that it isn't secretly preferred. However, outside of the VA and USPHS, the federal government is not all that picky about programmatic accreditation, and they definitely don't care about the prestige of your school.

Sorry I should've distingushed better.

I mean they're really more used for federal government jobs. Local governments don't really enforce the CEPH. I've seen the requirement for very few public health jobs. Many of the descriptions state a Department of Education Master's is needed. I could be wrong, but that was my experience.

There's another certification for public health, I forgot what the name was, for people who didn't go to a CEPH school.