Office of University Admissions Pre-Veterinary Medicine

Office of University Admissions

Pre-Veterinary Medicine

Mercer's Pre-Veterinary Curriculum (corresponding Mercer courses found in grid)

6 hours of English

14 hours of humanities or social studies

8 hours of inorganic chemistry (full year with laboratory)

8 hours of organic chemistry (full year with laboratory)

8 hours of physics (full year with laboratory)

3 hours of biochemistry

8 hours of general biology (full year with laboratory)

8 hours of advanced biology courses (recommended: comparative anatomy, microbiology, cell biology, genetics)

Most Mercer pre-veterinary medicine students will enroll in one the following four Colleges of Veterinary Medicine. Admission is highly competitive and completion of pre-requiste courses at Mercer or any other college does not guarantee admission to one of these veterinary medicine programs:

University of Georgia

Auburn University

University of Florida

University of Tennessee

Requirements	Course Numbers	Course Title
English	FYS 101 FYS 102	First Year Seminar 1 First Year Seminar 2
Inorganic Chemistry (lab required)	CHM 111/111L CHM 112/112L	General Chemistry 1 w/lab General Chemistry 2 w/lab
Organic Chemistry (lab required)	CHM 221/221L CHM 222/222L	Organic Chemistry 1 w/lab Organic Chemistry 2 w/lab
Physics (lab required)	PHY 141/141L or 161/161L PHY 142/142L or 162/162L	Mechanics, Waves, Thermodynamics Electricity and Magnetism, Optics, Modern Physics
Biochemistry (lab not required)	BIO/CHM 465	Biochemistry
General Biology (lab required)	BIO 210/210L BIO 220/220L	Intro to Biology 1 w/lab Intro to Biology 2 w/lab
Advanced Biology Note: Advanced Biology courses should be numbered 300 and above	BIO 301 BIO 303 BIO 310 BIO 325 BIO 330 BIO 410	Vertebrate Zoology Microbiology Genetics Comp Animal Physiology VeterbrateHistology Molecular Genetics

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