Educating Health Leaders
A life in the health professions lets you make a positive impact while forging a fulfilling career path β and the ΒιΆΉΒγΑΔ offers the most dynamic health professions educational experience in Northern New England. Frontline health care workers are essential and remain in high demand across the country. ΒιΆΉΒγΑΔ will prepare you to be a leader in todayβs health care workforce, making a difference for your patients and your community.
The Allied Health Professions β Working Together
Few universities anywhere offer the advantages of a ΒιΆΉΒγΑΔ health professions education. We have a unique mix of nationally recognized health professions programs β including Maineβs only medical and dental schools, plus nursing, pharmacy, physician assistant, social work, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and more β so we are able to train our students to work collaboratively across disciplines to deliver team-based care to their patients. Collaborative health care is the gold-standard approach that is rapidly becoming the norm in clinical care settings.
Regional Leadership, Strong Partnerships
Being Maineβs #1 provider of health professionals means ΒιΆΉΒγΑΔ has strong direct ties to the regionβs hospitals, clinics, and practice settings, as well as to the business community and policy makers in Augusta. This network helps our graduates find employment, internships, and a welcoming community of colleagues and peers who provide a lifetime of support.
Portland Campus for the Health Sciences
The Harold and Bibby Alfond Center for Health Sciences on ΒιΆΉΒγΑΔβs Portland Campus is now open as a state-of-the-art facility for health sciences education. It serves as the new home for ΒιΆΉΒγΑΔβs College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Center to Advance Interprofessional Education and Practice. By bringing all health professions programs together on the Portland Campus for the Health Sciences, ΒιΆΉΒγΑΔ has created a uniquely integrated health sciences campus in the region, reinforcing its position as a national leader in interprofessional education.
Weβre constantly strengthening our partnerships to broaden the pathway for future health care professionals, offering new degree programs in high-demand fields available both online and on-campus.
Learn more about ΒιΆΉΒγΑΔβs Portland Campus for the Health Sciences
Leaders in Health-Related Research
At ΒιΆΉΒγΑΔ, our leading programs in health sciences position you for a rewarding career in research, education, entrepreneurship, and beyond. Weβre proud to be recognized as an R2 research university with a commitment to solving real challenges, where students have the opportunity to participate in research led by passionate, supportive faculty. Here, youβll be able to make a difference inside the lab and out in the field.
Using Protein Polymers to Help Injured Spines
Explore Our Degree Programs
Dive into our graduate health professions degrees, and explore undergraduate pathways including Nursing, βpre-medβ health sciences majors, and several combined undergraduate/graduate degree path offerings. For students who are already focused on a health-related career as they come out of high school, ΒιΆΉΒγΑΔ offers several options that allow you to pursue your undergraduate and graduate degrees in a single accelerated program. These include Pharmacy, Medical Biology, Social Work, Athletic Training, Occupational Therapy, and our GradVantage program. Beyond the classroom, ΒιΆΉΒγΑΔβs health degrees offer robust internship and clinical opportunities.
Undergraduate Health Programs
- Applied Exercise Science
- Athletic Training 3+2 Program
- Dental Hygiene (4-Year B.S.)
- Dental Hygiene Completion Program
- Medical Biology (Medical Sciences)
- Medical Biology (Pre-Physician Assistant Track - MPA)
- Neuroscience
- Nursing (4-Year B.S.N. Program)
- Nursing (Accelerated B.S.N. β 12 Months)
- Nutrition
- Occupational Studies
- Occupational Studies/M.S.O.T 3+2
- Pre-Pharmacy
- Psychology
- Public Health
- Social Work (B.S.W.)
