Pre-Health Professions

Do you want to make a difference in human and animal health? Being a pre-professional health major at Michigan Tech will start you on your way! As a health provider, you’ll not only have the opportunity to improve lives on a daily basis, you’ll get to use your knowledge and strengths to make our society healthier.

Pre-health options include…  

  • Pre-Chiropractic Medicine
  • Pre-Dentistry
  • Pre-Medicine
  • Pre-Optometry
  • Pre-Pharmacy
  • Pre-Physical Therapy
  • Pre-Physician Assistantship
  • Pre-Podiatric Medicine
  • Pre-Veterinary Medicine
  • Sports Medicine

Before you get ready to plunge into your pre-professional health studies, here are a few things you should know about the program…

  • Our graduates have over a 70% placement rate to medical school—the national average is 47%.  Students in our other pre-professional programs have over a 70% placement rate to professional school.
  • We offer a strong science preparation along with numerous relevant non-science courses to provide a well-rounded curriculum for students planning to enter the health professions.
  • Biological sciences, chemistry, and biomedical engineering are excellent majors to choose if you have an interest in the health professions—though students can be accepted through the study of any curriculum.
  • Michigan Tech has traditionally provided the highest number of Upper Peninsula physicians of any undergraduate institution.
  • You can get free help on your assignments or work for the Biological Sciences Learning Center.

Other options for pre-health professions include pre-physician assistantship (which many students choose to complete the summer after they graduate), pre-chiropractic medicine, and sports medicine.

Our pre-health faculty members maintain strong ties with our graduates. Several graduates who are in medical school, return each year to meet with current pre-med students and to offer their advice. Pre-health knowledge is contagious!

Learn more about pre-health professions at Michigan Tech!