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. 2022 Feb 2;20:14. doi: 10.1186/s12960-022-00713-4

Table 2.

Number and proportion of various academic disciplines eligible for admission in master’s level public health programmes, India 1995–2021

Academic disciplines Programme type
Private (n = 55) Public (n = 34) Total
Medical college Non-medical college Medical college Non-medical college
n = 7 n = 48 n = 15 n = 19 n (%)
Health science
 Medicine 7 48 15 19 89 (100)
 Dentistry 7 48 14 17 86 (97)
 Nursing 6 47 14 17 84 (94)
 AYUSH 6 47 14 15 82 (92)
 Physical therapy 5 45 14 15 79 (89)
 Medical technologies 4 41 12 14 71 (80)
 Pharmaceutical science and studies 6 44 5 15 70 (79)
 Nutrition/dietetics 5 41 5 12 63 (71)
 Animal husbandry and veterinary science 4 38 5 13 60 (67)
 Occupational therapy 4 35 5 13 57 (64)
Non-health science
 Life sciences 3 35 2 13 53 (59)
 Behavioural sciences 3 35 2 13 53 (59)
 Technology and engineering 3 33 5 7 48 (54)
 Statistics and bio-statistics 2 21 3 9 35 (39)
 Agricultural sciences 0 23 2 6 31 (35)
Non-health and non-science
 Humanities and social sciences 5 37 5 15 62 (70)
 Economics and commerce 2 28 3 7 40 (45)
 Management studies 2 25 3 6 36 (40)
 Law 1 27 3 4 35 (39)
 Journalism and communications 0 2 0 1 3