Pre-Professional Tracks

Pre-DentistryPre-LawPre-MedicinePre-PharmacyPre-Physical TherapyPre-Veterinary

Your Launchpad to Medicine, Law and the 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.
  • Proof the preparation works: 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.
  • Mentors who know your name: 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.
  • 75%
    Of Goshen students who applied to medical school over the past five years were accepted, nearly double the national average.
  • #31
    National rank, out of 168 colleges in our Carnegie class, for the share of graduates who go on to earn doctorates.
  • 100%
    Of social work graduates passed their licensing exam over the past five years.

    Explore Each Track

    • Student practicing nursing skills in class

      Pre-Dentistry

      Steady hands, strong science, ready for dental school.

    • Pre-Law

      Read, write, and argue your way into law school.

    • Students practicing nursing skills in class

      Pre-Medicine

      Walk into medical school ready for the work.

    • 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-Veterinary

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

      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, 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 I am looking forward to applying those skills next year 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.

      • 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 interviews are testing for.
      • 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.
      • 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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