FAQs
Bachelor of Science - Integrated Health Science (BSIHS) FAQs
The BSIHS designation ensures you don’t have any issues completing the pre-requisites needed to apply to the nursing program and serves as your major until you are formally accepted into the nursing program. If you are interested in applying to nursing, you have to complete the pre-requisites, apply and be accepted to the program before you can be considered an official major.
No, you simply need to declare BSIHS as your major and select the concentration that fits within your career goals.
Yes! You can select nursing, social work or any major, just know that behind the scenes we will put you in the BSIHS program until you complete the required pre-requisites, apply and are admitted to the program. Once admitted we will do a change of major to the clinical professions program for which you are selected.
Yes, the Professional Services Concentration allows you the flexibility to take most, if not all the pre-requisites for medical school, but you need to review the admissions requirements for the schools/programs to which you are applying.
Yes, but you really don’t need to switch as we don’t want you to lose any time to graduation. e.g., If you are in the Clinical Services Concentration trying to get into nursing and change your mind, you can stay in that concentration and finish your degree.
It depends on what you declare as your new major. All of the General Education Core classes will count towards your new major within the College of Health Professions and some of the other courses may count, it just really depends.