Let us be your gateway to a medical healthcare professional career.

Vital healthcare professional schools require specific undergraduate requirements. As a pre-health professional student at Purdue University Calumet, you’ll be able to learn about and prepare for a career in one of the expanding fields in the healthcare arena. Health care delivery in America uses teams of professionals, and each are experts in their fields. Individuals with degrees in medicine, pharmacy, physical therapy, nursing, and more work together in

hospitals, clinics, and private enterprises. In addition to medicine and nursing, there is a growing demand for professionals in fields such as medical laboratory science, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physical therapy, or physician assistant. We provide you with the education and advising you need to enter the professional school or program that best suits your talents and interests.

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Be an important member of a healthcare team.

Our experienced advisors help you select the courses you need to go on to a variety of careers, including:

Medicine (allopathic and osteopathic)
Dentistry
Podiatry
Optometry
Veterinary Medicine
Physician Assistant
Physical Therapy
Occupational Therapy

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Hands-on learning and real work experience

You want the chance to perform hands-on research, gain clinical experiences, and interact with advisors who know how to guide you to make the right choices. At Purdue University Calumet you’ll have all of that and more. Experts provide experiential training and investigative research opportunities that will enable you to dig deeper into your field of interest. You’ll have exceptional opportunities to become engaged in investigative and applied research. Volunteering opportunities are plentiful with the large number of clinical sites within the Northwest Indiana and southern Chicagoland area.

Most medical and healthcare professional careers do not require that you study a specific academic major. You can enter Purdue University Calumet with a specific profession in mind, or without immediately declaring a field of specialization and be assured that you can begin course work needed by all healthcare professional programs. You are encouraged to experience the breadth and wealth of healthcare professional opportunities to find the one that best suits your talents and interests. There’s time to explore your degree options. Expert advisors will help you understand and choose courses that are required for later entry into professional schools of your choice.