Academics

Earlham graduates have a 90 percent acceptance rate to medical school and other health-related graduate programs. Here, you will receive expert advising to help prepare for a career in any of the health professions, and you will create an e-portfolio that will track your progress even after graduation. In recent years, our pre-health advising program has helped graduates gain admission to such top schools as the University of Chicago, Dartmouth and Harvard.

At Earlham, you will have opportunities to explore important health issues from multiple perspectives and through the lenses of various disciplines. You will also have the chance to learn about these issues first hand during one of our off-campus programs and to engage in research and advocacy related to key challenges that are facing the world. Each year, the Center sponsors an International EPIC Term engaging students in medical exposure and public health service. These immersive and culturally enriching experiences have been based in Peru (2017) and Costa Rica (2018).

At Earlham, you will go beyond a traditional major by creating a career-focused Integrated Pathway and perhaps choosing a minor in a health field. The practical experience that students gain at Earlham has helped recent graduates find work in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health and the Schepens Eye Institute (an affiliate of Harvard Medical School). Others have gone directly to top graduate programs, with several earning Pre-Doctoral Fellowships from National Science Foundation.