With more than 100 distinct health care careers in the world today, the health care industry is incredibly broad, and finding your way to the right career can be challenging. BJU?s health sciences program is specifically designed to help you navigate to the career of your choosing. This program also provides excellent preparation for a wide variety of graduate and professional programs including health services administration, optometry, pharmacy, and physical and occupational therapy programs.

Your first semester you?ll start by taking a broad survey of the health care industry. This course will survey present career options, explore emerging fields and, most importantly, help you map out a path to the career you wish to pursue. You?ll also partner with a faculty advisor for your entire four years of study, and he or she will work closely with you to choose electives focused on achieving your academic and career goals.

A large number of advising tracks are available within the major to customize the program with your educational and career goals in mind. One popular option is the?pre-physical therapy advising track?which specifically prepares you for admission into doctor of physical therapy (DPT) professional programs.

Each course in your curriculum will be steeped in biblical bioethics to help you answer the tough questions that will face you in your career and to help you learn how to respond ethically. Regardless of which path you choose, you?ll lay a solid foundation in thinking like a health care professional who knows how to solve problems.