Admissions Requirements

You’re looking for an educational environment that will challenge and motivate you. To meet your expectations and satisfy accreditation requirements, we ask our applicants to be exceptionally well prepared.

Below is a list of prerequisite courses you will need to complete with a grade of “C” or higher before starting our program. Courses must have been taken within the last eight years.

Advanced Placement (AP) courses will be considered as long as the course title and credit hours are listed on your college/university transcript and are equivalent to the prerequisite requirements. You may be asked to provide a course description for the admissions committee to determine if the course will be accepted. 

• Biology with Lab (for science majors) – 4 semester credit hours

  Examples of acceptable courses include:

  General Biology

  Human Biology

  Microbiology, and

  Molecular Biology

  Please note that Molecular Biology, Microbiology, and Genetics courses are usually 3 hours and will require a lab.

  Applications are reviewed individually; however, Exercise Physiology, Ecology, Evolution, and Plant-based biology courses generally do not fulfill the Biology requirements for UTSW. If you have a question if a specific course meets this requirement, send us an po.sshp@utsouthwestern.edu with the full course description.

  All required science classes must be for science majors and include a laboratory component.

  Competitive applicants will have completed additional credit hours

• Human Anatomy and Physiology with Lab (for science majors) – 8 semester credit hours

  Acceptable combonations of courses include:

  4 hours of Anatomy + 4 hours of Physiology or 4 hours of A&P l + 4 hours of A&P ll

  Courses must be Human A&P. Zoology courses will not be accepted.

  All required science classes must be for science majors and include a laboratory component.

• Physics with Lab (for science majors) – 8 semester credit hours

  Physics courses can be either algebra or calculus based. College Physics and University Physics are both accepted.

  All required science classes must be for science majors and include a laboratory component.

• Chemistry – 4 semester credit hours

  All required science classes must be for science majors and include a laboratory component.

• College Algebra or higher – 3 semester credit hours

  We will accept any math class above College Algebra as well.

• Statistics – 3 semester credit hours
   
• Psychology – 3 semester credit hours

  Introduction to Psychology or General Psychology is often a prerequisite to these upper-level courses. Please refer to your university’s catalog to confirm if you will need to take one of these courses.

  Must be human growth and development or abnormal.