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Table 2 Number and proportion of various academic disciplines eligible for admission in master’s level public health programmes, India 1995–2021

From: Transdisciplinarity of India’s master’s level public health programmes: evidence from admission criteria of the programmes offered since 1995

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