Program Facts

GU Pre-Professional Medical Facts

• Gannon offers a wide variety of assurance and accelerated programs. Gannon has several affiliations with medical, optometry, podiatry and veterinary schools. Enrollment in one of these programs will give you an advantage over students at other colleges when it comes time to apply to professional school.
• To stay current with professional school requirements and trends, faculty members are involved in the Northeast Association of Advisors for the Health Professions and the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions. Their excellent rapport with professionals and admissions directors at professional schools give Gannon graduates an extra edge.
• Over the past 20 years, more than 75 percent of Gannon students who applied to health professional schools were accepted, a figure nearly double the national average. Pre-professional students generally spend four years at Gannon University and earn a bachelor’s degree (typically in biology or chemistry) before advancing to professional school.
• Students from any academic major can be accepted to health professional schools with the correct prerequisite coursework. Professional schools generally require two years of biology with laboratories, four semesters of chemistry with laboratories, and two semesters of physics with laboratories.
• Gannon graduates pursuing optometry, podiatry or dentistry have nearly 100 percent acceptance rates.