Health Sciences

Where clinical care meets community health

The Health Sciences major prepares you to lead in today’s complex healthcare landscape. Students interested in clinical careers learn alongside students focused on public health, so future clinicians understand how policy and community impact patients, and future public health professionals understand how the human body works.

The major is built around your goals, allowing you to complete the prerequisites for your professional path as electives within your degree. Our interdisciplinary faculty bring expertise in physiology, microbiology, public health, psychology, and anthropology.

With access to major hospitals and healthcare organizations throughout Chicago, you will gain hands-on experience in one of the nation’s leading healthcare cities. You will graduate prepared to improve health at every level, from individual patients to entire communities.

Choose your focus

• The Bioscience Concentration prepares you for careers in medicine, nursing, physician assistant, dentistry, pharmacy, physical therapy, and pathologists' assistant.
• The Public Health Sciences Concentration prepares you for careers in public health, community health, administration, and health communication.

Accelerate your path

Qualified students can complete a bachelor’s and a graduate or professional degree in as few as five years. Accelerated options include Public Health, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physician Assistant, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Pathologists' Assistant, and Podiatric Medicine. These accelerated programs can save you a full year of tuition.