Second Bachelor's Degree
- Advantages:
- Classified as an undergraduate student
- Limitations:
- Can only take undergrad classes
- Second degree's major needs to be different from first degree's major
- Cost:
- Loans and scholarships available
- UHM application
Post-Bacc Unclassified (PBU)
- Advantages:
- Not enrolled in a degree program
- Limitations:
- Can possibly take undergrad and grad courses
- Register last → harder to get into classes
- Cost
- UHM: Expensive
- Community college: Usually more affordable than UHM
- Application
Pre-Health Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Programs
- ~1 year long
- Upper-level undergrad classes
- Application and financial aid options dependent on the program
- Cost: Expensive
- Types
- Academic Enhancers (AE): To raise overall GPA by retaking relevant prerequisite courses or other science-based pre-health courses.
- Career Changers (CC): for students who have obtained a bachelor's degree in a non-science or health-related field and have decided on a career change to a health profession.
- Educationally/economically disadvantaged or underrepresented minority (EDD): focus programs allow qualified students to become competitive applicants for professional school.
- Some offer linkage, where qualified students are offered guaranteed admission or interview to affiliated professional schools upon meeting certain requirements.
- Options
- Available nationwide
- Hawaiʻi
- HPU: For pre-health students.
- ‘Imi Hoʻōla: Only for those who are not accepted into JABSOM.
Master’s Degree Programs
- ~2 years long
- Graduate-level courses
- Application and financial aid options dependent on the program
- Cost: Expensive
- Types
- Special Master’s Programs:
- Specifically for pre-health students
- Some SMP curriculums consist of courses that are taken alongside graduate, PhD, or professional school (medical, dental, etc.) students, allowing admissions committees to directly measure and compare students’ proficiencies at these higher levels.
- Some offer linkage, where qualified students are offered guaranteed admission or interview to affiliated professional schools upon meeting certain requirements.
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- General programs
- Available nationwide
- UHM Programs
- Some programs also provide certificates as well.
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