Pre-Professional Study Tracks

Pre-MedicinePre-DentistryPre-VeterinaryPre-PharmacyPre-Physical TherapyPre-Law

Your launchpad to medicine, law and health professions

  • Every track is an advising pathway that pairs with a major you love, so you build real expertise while you prepare for medical, dental, pharmacy, veterinary, physical therapy or law school.
  • Goshen College ranks number one among Best Bachelor’s College in Indiana according to Washington Monthly, and our alumni move into professional schools, clinics, hospitals, research labs and courtrooms across the country.
  • Classes stay small, so the professor teaching your hardest course is the same person coaching you through the entrance exam and writing your recommendation letter.
  • MAYO
    and AbbVie are two examples of research powerhouses where graduates interned and are employed
  • 1
    mile from campus to Goshen Hospital
  • TOP
    law schools including Harvard, Michigan and Notre Dame have awarded degrees to Goshen pre-law alumni

    Explore each track

    • Students practicing nursing skills in class

      Pre-Medicine

      Walk into medical school ready for the work.

    • Student practicing nursing skills in class

      Pre-Dentistry

      Steady hands, strong science, ready for dental school.

    • Pre-Veterinary

      Biology, chemistry, and the animals you want to care for.

    • A student gives a manikin an injection

      Pre-Pharmacy

      From the molecule to the patient, prepared for pharmacy school.

    • Pre-Physical Therapy

      Move people toward recovery in a field that keeps growing.

    • Pre-Law

      Read, write and argue your way into law school.

      students in nursing skill lab

      Pair it with a major you love

      • Health tracks on a strong science core: Pre-medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine and physical therapy pair naturally with biology or molecular biology and biochemistry, the majors that build the foundation professional schools expect.
      • Pre-law, sharpened for the LSAT: The pre-law track pairs beautifully with history, political studies, peace and justice, business or English, fields that grow the reading, writing and argument that law school rewards.
      • A degree with its own value: Whatever comes next, you graduate with a real major and a real skill set, so your track is never a gamble on a single outcome.

      Experience before you ever apply.

      • Research beside a professor: Through programs like Maple Scholars, you can spend a full summer on real research as early as your first year doing the kind of work that makes an application stand out.
      • Hours that turn into stories: Shadowing in clinics, volunteering in hospitals and working in the lab give you the real experience admissions committees look for and the quiet confidence that this is your path.
      • Facilities built for the work: Modern science labs and health simulation spaces mean you practice in the same kind of environment you will step into on your first day after graduation.

      • Studying History at GC taught me the critical thinking and reasoning skills needed to get a perfect score on the LSAT, and those skills are helping me succeed at Notre Dame Law School. Most importantly, though, Goshen taught me to be a better, well-rounded person inside and outside the classroom.

        Daniel James '24

        Notre Dame Law School

      The whole person, not just the GPA.

      • Learn the human skills admissions really want: Alongside the science, you grow the communication, ethics and cultural understanding that make a good physician, lawyer or pharmacist, the very qualities interviewers are testing for.
      • Embrace a wider view of the world: Goshen’s signature Study-Service Term sends you abroad to live and serve in another culture, an experience that reshapes how you see patients, clients and communities.
      • Embody values that carry into practice: A commitment to service and justice runs through every track, so you leave ready not only to enter a profession but to do real good inside it.

      Your professional future starts here.

      One application opens the door to every pre-professional track at Goshen College.

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