Undergraduate Preparation

Preprofessional Course Requirements

Students intending to apply for admission to the College of Veterinary Medicine should plan to complete a bachelor's degree. However, outstanding students may be admitted after only three years of preprofessional course work.

Sequencing of pre-professional course work should be planned carefully, preferably under the guidance of pre-professional advisers. The Office for Students and Instruction in this college welcomes inquiries of a general nature but semester-by-semester course scheduling should be monitored by the college offering the bachelor's degree.

Pre-veterinary students may major in a program offered by any department or college at the university but they must complete the pre-professional requirements listed below. All applicants to the professional curriculum must present a minimum of 80 semester hours of college-level course work, exclusive of courses in physical education and military training.

Credit for Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) programs is acceptable at the level identified in the Academic Advising section. Please note, however, that credit for CLEP may not be used to fulfill general education requirements.

Preprofessional Course Requirements

• Biology - a minimum of 15 semester credits, including two semesters of animal biology or zoology (lecture and laboratory), one semester of genetics, and one semester of microbiology (lecture and laboratory).
• Chemistry - a minimum of 19 semester credits, including two semesters of inorganic chemistry (general and qualitative, lecture and laboratory), two semesters of organic chemistry (lecture and laboratory) and one semester of biochemistry.
• Physics - a minimum of eight semester credits, including two semesters of lecture and laboratory.
• Mathematics - a minimum of six semester credits, including one semester of calculus and one semester of statistics.
• Animal Science - a minimum of six semester credits, including one semester of animal science and one semester of animal nutrition.
• Humanities - a minimum of nine semester credits.
• Social Science - a minimum of six semester credits.
• English - minimum of six semester credits, including two semesters of English composition.
• Electives - variable number to bring minimum total to 80 semester credits.
• Minor variations in credits will be accepted. The applicant must complete these courses by the end of the spring term of the year of admission to the professional program.
• The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is required of all applicants.

These preprofessional course requirements may be completed at any accredited college or university offering courses of content similar to those specified in the brochure entitled Information for Applicants to the College of Veterinary Medicine. This brochure may be obtained from the Office of the Dean for Students and Instruction, College of Veterinary Medicine, Box 100125 University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-0125.