Veterinary Degrees Online

Franklin College has a pre-professional program for veterinary medicine at Purdue University. To be considered for admission to the School of Veterinary Medicine at Purdue, the student must have completed a minimum of 72 semester hours of pre-veterinary medicine studies. Most students admitted to the veterinary program at Purdue have many more than the 72 hours. A large percentage now complete the B.A. degree prior to entering the pre-professional program.

Students applying to Purdue must submit an application to VMCAS (Veterinary Medical College Application Service). This organization serves as a clearing house sending your application materials to all of the vet schools that you apply to. Students applying to Purdue also must take the GRE (Graduate Record Exam). This exam must be taken in time to have your completed application postmarked to Purdue no later than October 1 of the year preceding your admission to vet school. The preprofessional requirements for admission to the Purdue program and the Franklin College course that Purdue has designated as a satisfactory equivalent for each required course are listed below.

The masters program in the Department of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Science requires the GRE and an undergraduate major in the biological sciences with a concentration in animal science, fisheries science, marine biology, microbiology, preveterinary medicine, or zoology, or a postgraduate professional degree (M.D., D.V.M., V.M.D.); one year of organic chemistry and physics. Courses in statistics, histology, and physiology are strongly recommended. The TOEFL is required of students from countries where English is not the predominantly spoken and written language. Admission requirements for the Ph.D. degree program are the same as those for the masters degree except for an additional Ph.D. qualifying examination normally administered one year after matriculation into the program.

Students interested in attending veterinary school should check with their prospective institutions for test requirements. Some schools require the Veterinary College Admission Test (VCAT), while others prefer the Graduate Record Examiniation (GRE) or Medical College Admission Test (MCAT).

The VCAT is designed to measure achievement in areas critical for success in veterinary medical school. It consists of approximately 230 multiple choice questions, and measures five content areas: verbal ability, biology, chemistry, quantitative ability and reading comprehension