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CAREER PLANNING

Students interested in the health professsions should consult the Pre-Professional Advisor, Dr. Heather Wilkins. Meetings are held with students each semester to provide current information, answers to questions, and guidance. She also helps students with their applications to professional schools, and chairs the Recommendation Committee for the Health Professions, a faculty committee that prepares the letters of recommendation for students.

The Department also sponsors a Career Night each year when Assumption science graduates return to share information about a wide range of employment opportunities available to Assumption students. Information on job openings is posted in the Testa Science Center and announced to all majors. Many students find their own contacts for employment while doing an internship (see above).

Career Paths

Sample of professional schools that have accepted Assumption graduates:

Medicine (Allopathic) Boston University Georgetown University St. Louis University The John Hopkins University University of Chicago University of Massachusetts University of Minnesota

Medicine (Osteopathic) Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine N.E. College of Osteopathic Medicine Southeastern College of Osteopathic Medicine

Podiatry Dr. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine New York College of Podiatric Medicine Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine

Optometry New England College of Optometry Pennsylvania College of Optometry

Dentistry Boston University Case Western Reserve University Tufts University University of Maryland

Graduate School in Biology or Chemistry Harvard University Boston University Dartmouth College Brown University University of Notre Dame Tufts University Boston College Pennsylvania State University

Did you Know?

More than 40% of Assumption undergraduates eventually go on to graduate school.