Pre-Veterinary Medicine

IMPORTANT: These courses are intended to help you finish your pre-requisites for Colorado State University’s DVM program. This is NOT considered a major or a minor at UCCS.

A pre-professional veterinary medicine curriculum prepares students to apply to a professional veterinary medicine program. In Colorado, a program is available at Colorado State University (CSU) in Fort Collins. See their website for more information: http://csu-cvmbs.colostate.edu/dvm-program/Pages/default.aspx.

For information, contact your advisor:

Freshmen and Prospective Students: Bev Kratzer (719) 255-3745, bkratzer@uccs.edu
Sophomore and above: Dr. Wendy Haggren - (719) 255-4156, whaggren@uccs.edu

Admission Requirements

A minimum of 60 semester hours must be completed before admission to the veterinary program at CSU, including the following:

BIOL 1300 - General Biology: Organismic Biology
BIOL 1310 - General Biology: Organismic Biology Laboratory
BIOL 3000 - Biostatistics or
MATH 3100 - Statistics for the Sciences
BIOL 3830 - Genetics
CHEM 1401 - General Chemistry I
CHEM 1411 - General Chemistry II
CHEM 4211 - Biochemistry or
CHEM 4221 - Biochemistry I
ENGL 1310 - Rhetoric and Writing I: Academic Reading and Analytical Writing
PES 1010 - Physics for Life Science I - Algebra Based and
PES 1150 - General Physics Lab I Algebra Based OR
PES 1110 - General Physics I - Calculus Based and
PES 1160 - Advanced Physics Lab I
12 hours of social science, humanities, or foreign language courses

Note:

Since most pre-veterinary medicine students will graduate before entering veterinary school, it will be necessary to complete an academic major and other College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences degree requirements.