Learning-by-doing is the hallmark of the University of Maine at Farmington Health Promotion & Wellness program. Here, you’ll gain hands-on, real-world experience in health education specialties.
Here, you’ll participate in classroom-based research, on-campus work opportunities, and service-learning projects led by faculty with expertise in a broad range of topics: epidemiology, nutrition, stress management, human sexuality, environmental health, disease prevention, and health promotion.
Our coursework gives you a unique skill set, allowing you to be recognized as professionals in the health industry and preparing you to become a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) upon graduation.
At Farmington, you’ll gain practical experience for a variety of health-related careers.
Save more than $5,500 per year in tuition. This University of Maine at Farmington program qualifies for the NEBHE Tuition Break.
Through the NEBHE Tuition Break program, students from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont receive a $5,670 tuition discount on all UMF degree programs.
What can you do with a degree in Health Promotion & Wellness?
Data comes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and other sources. Median Salaries for positions in Maine typically fall below those of other New England states.
We believe hands-on experience is so valuable, we require it … and you’ll love it!
At Farmington, you’ll participate in extensive outside-the-classroom fieldwork, including a required practicum and internship. Through your community placement (which we’ll do for you) you’ll work in the field of health education — going out into a workplace to apply the knowledge you’ve studied in the classroom.
You’ll get to assess individual and community needs for health education; plan, implement, and administer health education strategies, interventions, and programs; conduct evaluation and research related to health education; serve as a health education resource person; and communicate and advocate for health and health education.
Your field experience will be under the co-supervision of UMF faculty and the participating agency’s staff.
Internships – Real-World Experience in Health Promotion & Wellness Fields
At UMF you can experience, first-hand, what it’s like to work in the Health Promotion & Wellness fields while you learn valuable career skills and develop a strong network of professional contacts.
Here’s a short list of where our Health Promotion & Wellness students have recently interned:
- South Portland High School Athletics Dept
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Waterville
- Healthy Community Coalition
- Franklin Health Internal Medicine
- Foxcroft Academy
- Healthy Communities of the Capital Area
- Somerset Public Health
- River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition
- Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School
- UMF Alpine Ski Team
- Tri-Valley United Way
- Maine Behavioral Health
- Mt. Blue High School Athletics Dept.
Many of our Health Promotion & Wellness students tell us this fieldwork portion of their degree program was the most rewarding and valuable of their college career.
You can also choose one of our optional value-added certificates and minors.
These are career-building options designed to further bolster your resume and fill your skills toolbox.
- Alpine Operations Certificate
- Child and Adolescent Health minor
- Coaching minor
- Health & Medicine minor
- Health Promotion & Wellness minor
- Nutrition minor
- Outdoor Recreation minor
- Physical Activity minor
Farmington Education grads get hired.
According to a 2020 survey of UMF Education graduates over the past three years, 83% of respondents indicated being employed in the field of education, with 85% hired within a year of graduation and 73% employed within four months of graduation.
Overall, 94.3% of respondents indicated they were Very Satisfied or Satisfied with their teacher education preparation at UMF.
Contact Us
Office of Admissions
University of Maine at Farmington
246 Main Street
Farmington, Maine USA 04938-1994
tel 207-778-7050
fax 207-778-8182
TYY (via Maine Relay Service) dial 711
umfadmit@maine.edu
