Pre-Professional Paths

Students interested in a career in the health professions become part of a careful mentoring and advising process beginning in the first year (or whenever they decide to pursue a health professions career). You’ll receive specific advice on how to best prepare yourself to become a strong applicant for admission to a health professions school. Each semester, in addition to regular program meetings with all other pre-health students, you’ll meet one-on-one with the program advisor. Those strategy sessions will help you determine how to best plan and carry out all of the components of building your application packet for graduate programs. 

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The challenge of a profession that has both an intellectual basis and a practical, real-world impact has been extraordinarily appealing to alumni of Fairfield University. Hundreds of men and women are enjoying challenging careers as judges, legal administrators, and layers specializing in:

• Criminal justice
• Corporate law
• Environmental law
• Other subfields of the legal profession

Your education at Fairfield in pre-law will prepare you to think logically, critically, and to write and speak clearly and persuasively, while giving you the broad background of learning that is crucial to a lawyer’s practice. The growing prestige of Fairfield University can be seen in the large numbers of Fairfield alumni who are accepted to the top law schools in the United States and who graduate from those schools with the highest honors. As a pre-law student at Fairfield, majoring in any field of study you wish, you will get the full benefit of the University’s experience in educating for a career in law. 

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Under a reciprocal agreement, full-time students at the Fairfield University and Sacred Heart University may take certain courses at either institution without payment of any additional fees other than those paid the matriculating institution, providing:

1. The course is not currently offered by Fairfield University.
2. It is on an approved list indicating its availability to Fairfield University students.
3. The student has prior permission from his or her Dean to take the course.
4. Tuition commitments have been met in full at Fairfield University.
5. Students observe all regulations of the host institution.

Each Fairfield post-baccalaureate and undergraduate certificate is designed to help you prepare for a specific graduate program or career. These programs will provide you with the foundation needed to succeed in these fields. Upon successful completion of all courses, students are awarded a Fairfield certificate and an undergraduate credit transcript. 

Fairfield Dolan’s Post-Baccalaureate in Accounting program is designed for working professionals or lifelong learners who have earned a bachelor’s degree and are interested in learning new job skills, improving their current accounting knowledge, or brushing up on the skills they need to better understand the essentials of accounting and finance for small business. 

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Fairfield’s Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Health (PBPH) program helps college graduates become qualified to apply to medical school. The program is specifically designed for applicants that have already earned an undergraduate degree in any discipline, but have not yet taken the many science and math courses required to qualify for medical school admission. 

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