Students who wish to apply to medical, dental or one of the other health professions schools may follow this curriculum. The program may be characterized as an interdisciplinary science major with emphasis in biology and chemistry. Graduates meet all the admission criteria for approved schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine and others. Every student who plans to apply to such a school, regardless of their major, should engage in the premedical advising services at the University. As many as 50 students from other curricula also express an intention in a health professional career.
Most students reside in the states of Ohio, Illinois, New York or Pennsylvania.
They normally seek admission to professional schools in their home states after graduation. Students with a premed intent who select a major in a conventional science discipline follow the program established for that major. The first-year programs for the various science disciplines at the University of Dayton are very similar and permit a student to change his or her major in the first or second year with little difficulty or loss of credits. Students enrolled in any University major may utilize all of the premedical counseling and advisory resources avail-able at the University of Dayton. However, in order to receive adequate counseling prior to applying to professional schools, such students must declare their professional school intentions to the Premedical Programs Office as early as possible, preferably in the first year.