Pre-Health Advising

4+1 Bioethics Program with the University of Pennsylvania

Haverford students can earn a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree from Haverford and a Master’s in Bioethics (M.B.E) from Penn’s Bioethics Program in the Perelman School of Medicine in five years.

This 4+1 partnership enables qualified Haverford undergraduates to gain early and expedited admission into a Master’s degree offered by the Penn Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy. Students may apply to the M.B.E program as an external “sub-matriculate” no later than the end of the summer after the sixth semester at Haverford and no earlier than the end of the fourth semester.

A GPA of 3.5 is required to apply; the GRE is not required. The admissions decision is based on the student’s transcript and letters of recommendation from one or more Haverford faculty members. Upon acceptance to the program, students will take up to three graduate courses in Bioethics at Penn while still enrolled at Haverford; course selection is subject to approval by the M.B.E program’s director of education. There is no additional financial charge for these courses.

During their four years at the College, students will also complete all Haverford graduation requirements, which can include courses taken at Penn as determined by Haverford’s Health Studies director. The fifth year of the program is spent entirely at Penn. Nine courses in all (including those taken while a Haverford undergraduate) are required to complete the requirements for the M.B.E degree.

4+1 Bioethics Program with Penn

Bi-College Health Studies Minor

This Haverford-Bryn Mawr minor explores the intertwined areas of health, disease, and social justice. We offer unparalleled training for students interested in confronting complex real-world health problems and creating solutions. Multidisciplinary in approach and collaborative in spirit, our curriculum embraces the social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities.

The minor follows three tracks: mechanisms of disease and maintenance of health (often biology and psychology courses); cultural, literary, and visual representations of health and illness (often anthropology and literature courses); and responses of social, civic, and governmental structure to issues of health and disease (often anthropology, history, and social work courses). Minors must complete one class from each track.

The minor also requires an introductory level course and a senior-level capstone course, both of which bring a range of perspectives to bear on a series of specific health-related issues. The capstone course culminates with students examining a single health issue from their own disciplinary perspective and delineating new directions for research.

Bi-College Health Studies Minor