Biology (BS) Pre-Dental
Program Overview
The pre-dental program will prepare you well for acceptance into dental school. The curriculum offers electives such as histology and embryology that are sometimes prerequisites for dental programs. Success in these topics will increase your competitiveness when applying.
Where Are Our Graduates?
- Universidad Dental Iberoamericano
- University of Pennsylvania
- LECOM School of Dental Medicine
- School of Dentistry at University of California
Curriculum
A major requires a minimum of 40 credits including Botany, Zoology, Biological Foundations, Genetics, and at least one course from each of the following core areas:
- Growth and development: Comparative Anatomy or Human Anatomy
- Cellular and molecular biology: Microbiology and/or Cell Biology
- Physiological and biochemical principles: Human Physiology or Comparative Physiology
- Environmental biology: Marine Biology or Ecology or Biodiversity of Ecosystems
- Biological theory: Evolution or Seminar or Virology
Students must also fulfill the following biology, chemistry, and physics requirements:
- General Chemistry & Qualitative Analysis and Organic Chemistry
- Calculus I
- 8 semester hours of physics
