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Commonly Required Courses

The table below summarizes the courses required by many of the schools offering degrees in the indicated health professions. **This table is for general reference only; each school will have its own unique admissions requirements. (See the links to these schools in the accompanying page for their requirements.)

Note: These are courses typically required for admission to health professions programs. These are not necessarily the same as the courses required/accepted for transfer to a bachelor's degree-granting college or university (which is required for all professions except pharmacy).

  Human Medicine Veterinary Medicine Dentistry Optometry Pharmacy Physical Therapy Physician Assistant
General Chemistry 2 1-2 2 2 2 1-2 1-2
Organic Chemistry 2 2 2 2 2    
General Biology

(Gen., Zoo. Bot.)

 2 2 2 2 2 1-2 1-2
Microbiology       1 1   1
Genetics         1 1  
Anatomy/Physiology       1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2
Biochemistry recommended 1   1 1    
Physics (Algebra) 2 2 2 2 2 2  
Pre-Calculus 1 1 1     1 1
Calculus       1 1    
English (writing/lit) 2 1-2 2 2 1-2   1-2
Other courses       Psychology, Statistics, Speech Psychology, Statistics, Speech varies varies

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