West Lafayette,
IN,
United States
Type
Public
Degrees offered
Bachelor's Degree
The Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences (OEHS) undergraduate program equips students for careers in workplace safety, environmental protection, and industrial health. This interdisciplinary field focuses on identifying and mitigating hazardous exposures in work and community settings to safeguard against health risks, injuries, and fatalities affecting both employees and the public. Purdue's OEHS curriculum emphasizes evaluating dangerous exposures, analyzing exposure-disease connections, and implementing engineering solutions to remove these threats.