Pre-Enrollment

• Degree Requirements Explained

• Pre-Health and Pre-Law

• Tracking Your Requirements

What kinds of courses will I take for my degree?

Where does pre-health and/or pre-law come into the picture?

First, to be clear, it’s OK to be admitted as Pre-Medicine, Pre-Pharmacy, Pre-Law and the like. While they may not be majors we offer degrees in at UNO, they do tell us your interest in pursuing a career in that field and we can help you determine next steps. Here’s how it works

Pre-Health

If you're admitted to UNO for a 4-year pre-health area, such as Pre-Medicine, Pre-Physician Assistant, Pre-Pharmacy, Pre-Physical Therapy, etc., then your steps will be as follows:

• Declare a UNO major that suits their intellectual interests. (We can chat about that with you if you don’t yet know)
• Add in specific pre-health requirements (scroll down on that website to see specific programmatic requirements) to the degree based on the health career of choice.
• Work with a Health Careers Resource Center advisor as well as the major advisor, to be sure UNO degree and pre-health requirements are all being met. (This includes all the extra stuff like advising on volunteering, research, and so on.)

To put it differently, students fulfilling requirements for pre-health programs may utilize major, minor, general education or elective space to work specific pre-health requirements into the UNO bachelor’s degree. The student won’t graduate from UNO with Pre-Medicine as their major, but that’s not important – fulfilling the prerequisites and being a quality candidate for medical school is. Visit the HCRC website for more information.

Students admitted to UNO for a 2-yr pre-health area, such as Pre-Nursing, Pre-Dental Hygiene, & Pre-Radiation Science Technology, will need to do the following things:

• Work with a Health Careers Resource Center advisor to learn about options and receive advising specific to the 2-yr prerequisite courses needed.
• To be clear, students interested in these specific areas do not need to declare a UNO major because the health programs do not require more than 2 years worth of prerequisites to be met.

Again, students interested in these specific areas do not need to declare a UNO major because the health programs do not require more than 2 years worth of prerequisites to be met.

Pre-Law

Students admitted to UNO as a Pre-Law major essentially have that major as a placeholder until they know what UNO major they would like to declare. They will need to select an available UNO major that suits their intellectual interests. Any major in the College of Arts and Sciences can offer excellent preparation for the study of law! Law schools seek students from a wide range of undergraduate majors and do not recommend any particular major or course of study as a prerequisite for admission, but students may wish to select a major in line with specialty areas of law, if desired.

How do I track all of my requirements?

All students have access to DegreeWorks, an online degree audit system, through their MavLink homepage and can use it to view the specific requirements for their selected degree/major.

Learn How to Read and Understand DegreeWorks

The audit is broken up into the different requirements needed to complete your program, such as General Education requirements, Major requirements, etc. View the powerpoint below to learn more about DegreeWorks and how you can use it to better understand your degree requirements.

What if I'm thinking of changing my major?

You can use the "What If" function in DegreeWorks to view the different majors, minors, concentrations, and/or certificate programs at UNO that you are interested in. It will allow you to see the requirements for each option and what courses you have completed that can be applied to each one. See the tutorial below for instructions.

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