Programs

Pre-Veterinary Medicine Program

Advising for students interested in the pre-veterinary medicine program is done by Dr. Jennifer Jezylo, Assistant Professor, 2804 West Science. Phone: 906-227-2206, email: jemyers@nmu.edu.

Pre-veterinary students who are residents of Michigan normally plan an academic program to meet requirements for admission to the College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University. Those requirements can be met at Northern Michigan University, where students take specified courses in biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, college composition, social science and humanities. Students are encouraged to earn a bachelor’s degree at Northern Michigan University by completing a major and minor in such fields as biology, biochemistry, chemistry, mathematics or psychology. Other majors are acceptable as long as the specified courses are completed.

Specific advisement information is found in the Pre-veterinary Medicine Handbook, available from the Biology Department. Factors considered in acceptance of students into the College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University include legal residency, grade point average in all college course work, grade point average in required pre-veterinary science courses, results of the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) or Graduate Record Examination (GRE), total college course credits completed, average course load per semester, a personal interview, essay, veterinary experience and animal exposure, and extracurricular activities.

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• Biology Components

  11-14
• BI 111 Introductory Biology: Principles

  4
• BI 112 Introductory Biology: Diversity

  4
• Advanced Biology Elective

  3-5
• Choose one course from the following:
•      BI 203 Medical Microbiology (3-5 cr.)
•      BI 218 Introduction to Cell and Molecular Biology (4 cr.)
•      BI 303 General Microbiology (5 cr.)
•      BI 312 Genetics (4 cr.)
•      BI 327 Animal Physiology (4 cr.)
•      BI 405 Immunology (3 cr.)
•      BI 406 Advanced Cell Biology (4 cr.)
•      BI 419 Biology of Cancer (4 cr.)
•      BI 420 Neuroscience (4 cr.)
•      BI 425 Endocrinology (4 cr.)

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• Mathematics Component

  4
• Choose one course from the following:

  4
•      MA 111 College Algebra for Calculus Preparation (4 cr.)
•      MA 115 Precalculus (4 cr.)
•      MA 161 Calculus I (4 cr.)

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• Chemistry Components

  24
• CH 111 General Chemistry I

  5
• CH 112 General Chemistry II

  5
• CH 315 Organic Chemistry I

  3
• CH 316 Organic Chemistry I Discussion

  1
• CH 317 Organic Chemistry Laboratory I

  1
• CH 325 Organic Chemistry II

  3
• CH 326 Organic Chemistry II Discussion

  1
• CH 327 Organic Chemistry Laboratory II

  1
• CH 450 Biochemistry I

  4

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• Physics Components

  10
• PH 201 College Physics I and

  5
• PH 202 College Physics II

  5
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• PH 220 Introductory Physics I (5 cr.) and
• PH 221 Introductory Physics II (5 cr.)

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