Academic Accelerator - Bachelor of Science - Predentistry

Program Description

• The right amount of support when you need it.
• A seat in credit-bearing courses, so you can earn a full freshman year’s worth of credits while taking courses tailored to your needs as an international student. This will help you achieve your academic and career goals.
• English-language instruction designed around your social and academic needs.
• Integrated and cohorted courses, so you’ll be in some classes with U.S. students and others with your designated UDayton Global cohort.

Preparing for a career in health or medicine can be a confusing and overwhelming process. Our formal premedical/predental curriculum aims to make the process as simple as possible. Our program includes an interdisciplinary science curriculum emphasizing biology and chemistry, which meets all admission criteria for approved schools of dentistry, medicine, osteopathy, veterinary medicine and others.

During your first year at the University of Dayton, you will enroll in a section of the University’s First-Year Experience dedicated to premedicine and predentistry majors. The course covers various aspects of University life, as well as career issues specific to future candidates of health care professional schools.

Despite the strict curriculum requirements, you will be able to choose a minor that may assist in your further training and schooling. Popular areas of concentration include cognitive and brain science, health psychology, neurosciences and physiological psychology, as well as traditional clinical and counseling psychology.

Increasingly high admission standards to professional schools make it necessary to have a strong academic and extracurricular record. Each premedicine and predentistry major is assigned an academic adviser from the premedical advisory committee. Your adviser works with you individually and monitors your academic and extracurricular involvement. The program director evaluates the academic credentials of all first- and second-year students; students with a low grade point average may be advised to select an alternate major.

The University established an independent Office of Premedical Programs, which provides information and support for all students interested in applying to a health professional school after graduation. No matter what your major is, you can receive the same support services automatically arranged for formal premedicine and predentistry majors by registering with the Office of Premedical Programs