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Follow a specialized degree path to fully prepare for careers in Human Health, including tracks for medical or dental school, physician assistant school, physical therapy, chiropractic school, occupational therapy, pharmacy programs, optometry school or public health.

Langseth Hall and Hagen Hall are modern facilities providing experiential, student-centered learning in interesting spaces that are devoted to research and discovery. In addition to outstanding labs on campus, you can learn and do research at a field station at the ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍø Regional Science Center.

Faculty-mentored research is the hallmark of an ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍø Biology degree. Faculty and student collaborators regularly publish in academic peer-reviewed journals and present at regional and national conferences. Faculty and student researchers meet regularly to discuss research.

Upper-level Biology courses average 10-15 students, ensuring you plenty of individual attention from faculty members who are not only master teachers, but also respected scholars in their respective field of expertise.

ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍø’s prairie restoration project is charged with restoring 160 acres of flora and fauna to pre-European prairie ecosystem. This project gives you an opportunity to do lab activities at the Regional Science Center gathering data, monitoring the recovery of restored sites and comparing data to data collected from original remnant prairie.

In addition to expert faculty, we enrich your learning experience in labs with Learning Assistants – peer undergraduates who facilitate individual student learning.

ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍø has a strong 3+3 articulation agreement with Northwestern Health Sciences University to fast-track to Doctor of Chiropractic after your junior year at ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍø.

Students studying in the health sciences get the rare undergraduate opportunity to study human anatomy based on cadaver dissection in a newly renovated lab.

Complete most of your bachelor’s degree coursework in your first three years and apply to for theMaster of Healthcare Administration (MHA) program in your junior or senior year. Start taking graduate MHA courses your senior year and earn a BS in Biology with a human health sciences emphasis and an MHA within five years.