Purdue Veterinary Medicine

Contacts

Website: http://www.vet.purdue.edu/
Phone: (765) 494-7607
Admissions e-mail: vetadmissions@purdue.edu

Program Information

• Degree offered: D.V.M. (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine)
• Joint degree options (with the Graduate School):
  • MS/DVM: 4-5 years
  • PhD/DVM: 6-7 years
• Number of applications for Class of 2022:
  • Residents: 141
  • Non-Residents: 976
• Students enrolled for Class of 2022:
  • Residents: 47
  • Non-Residents: 37

Admission Requirements

Course and Degree Requirements

• Required Courses:
  • General (Inorganic) chemistry with lab - two semesters
  • Organic chemistry with lab - two semesters
  • Biochemistry - one semester
    • This class should be a complete upper-division course
  • General Biology with lab (diversity, developmental, cell structure) - two semesters
  • Genetics - one semester
  • Microbiology (general or medical) with lab - one semester
  • Physics with lab - two semesters
  • Statistics - one semester
  • English composition - one semester
  • Communication (interpersonal, persuasion, or speech) - one semester
  • Careers in Veterinary Medicine (if available) - one semester
  • Humanities (Foreign languages, cognitive sciences, and social sciences) - three semesters

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GPA

• Average GPA resident: 3.79
• Average GPA non-resident: 3.65
• Required courses must be completed with a “C-” grade (1.7 on a 4.0 scale) or better in each course and applicants must maintain a competitive cumulative grade point average
• Applicants must have a cumulative GPA (including all course repeats) of no less than 3.00 to receive consideration

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Supporting Documents

• No supplemental application besides the VMCAS application
• More information on how applicants are judged can be found here

Interview

• mid-December: Invitations to applicants for interview
• Interviews are on January 25, 2019 and February 1, 2019

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Timeline

• September 17, 2018: Deadline for VMCAS application, transcripts submitted through VMCAS
  • click here for the VMCAS application
• Oct-Dec: Review process
• mid-December: Invitations to applications for interview
• Jan 25th and Feb 1st: Applicant interviews

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Tuition 2018-2019

• Residents: $19,918 USD/year
• Non-Residents: $44,746 USD/year

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