Succeed in premier programs
When you graduate from WSU, you're fully prepared to be a health professional.
WSU gives you extensive opportunities to experience the front lines of the health-care industry — you can “try on” your chosen profession through internships, service learning, and volunteer work.
Top-notch advising
The Health Professions Student Center serves all WSU students interested in pursuing a career in human or animal healthcare.
What the HPSC can do for you:
- Help you explore the many health professions.
- Help you get involved! We support and advise health related student clubs, which are valuable avenues for leadership experience.
- Deepen your understanding of your chosen health field.
- Connect you with tutors, mentors, internships, and research opportunities.
- Help you prepare for professional exams.
- Help you to submit a strong, complete application for professional school.
- Prepare you for professional school interviews.
- Stay in touch with you during your professional program and after you have reached your professional goals!
Choosing a major
Virtually any major, along with a strong science emphasis, can prepare you for successful admission to medical, pharmacy, veterinary, and allied health professional schools.
What's the best major?
It's entirely up to you. Professional health schools don't give preference to any particular major.
The most important thing is to choose a major you enjoy and can do well in.
With WSU's dedicated pre-health advising, you can turn any major into a path toward the professional school of your choice. Advisors in the Health Professions Student Center will help you create your individual path to professional school admission.
Not sure where to start?
If you're not sure what you want to major in, here are four things that can help with your decision.
You don't have to declare a major right away.
You can get started on basic science prerequisites and general education requirements while you explore your options. And the pre-health advisors can help make sure that while you're looking for a major that fits, you're also moving toward your professional-school goal.
Look at majors that fit your personal interests.
It's better to work professional school prerequisites into a schedule packed with things you enjoy than to suffer through a program you don't like.
Consider a science major. Most majors in biological and physical sciences can be easily adapted to the requirements of pre-professional study. Some even have specialization tracks built on professional school prerequisites.
Consider a non-science major. The pre-health advisors can help you work professional school prerequisites into any major — and most professional schools place high value on degrees that include study in areas like language, the arts, social sciences, education, business, and so on.
The advisors there can help you find a major that fits and help you keep your professional school prerequisites on track while you're exploring your options.
Remember, there are no restrictions on what you can study. As long as you fulfill the prerequisites for professional school — and of course, get good grades — any major you choose will be fine.