Admission requirements

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Prerequisites

• If your university has given you college credits for your Advanced Placement course and/or exam, and it is listed on your transcript, we will accept these credits.
• Biological sciences (12 semester hours including laboratory)
• Must include four semester hours of college biology. May be an introductory or an advanced course.
• Must include four semester hours of anatomy and four semester hours of human physiology or eight semester hours of anatomy/physiology I and II.
• An exercise physiology course is not an acceptable substitute for a human physiology course.
• Cell biology and histology are highly recommended but not required.
• Chemistry (eight semester hours including laboratory)
• Mathematics (three semester hours)
• These credits must be in precalculus or above.
• Physics (eight semester hours of general physics with laboratory) – courses that emphasize mechanics, electricity, heat and light are highly recommended.
• Psychology (six semester hours)
• One introductory course and one course in human growth and development or abnormal psychology is required.
• Additional courses from the Department of Psychology may be substituted.
• Statistics (three semester hours)
• Please note that the English and Humanities course requirements have been deleted.