• About
• Beyond the classroom
• First Year Courses
• Upper Year Courses
• Beyond UW
• Important Information

About

Waterloo's highly flexible Biomedical Sciences program can prepare you for almost any health profession program in North America. If you're considering a career as an optometrist, doctor, dentist, pharmacist, physiotherapist, chiropractor, occupational therapist, forensic scientist, audiologist, speech pathologist, medical laboratory technologist, veterinarian, or any other health professional, our Biomedical Sciences program can help you reach your goals.

Beyond the Classroom

The large number of elective courses allows you to pursue an area of special interest within or outside science. This flexibility is valuable because most health profession schools prefer well-rounded individuals who are both strong leaders and effective communicators.

First Year Courses

Beginning in first year, you'll be able to tailor your individual program by choosing electives from both science and non-science disciplines, including Psychology, Sociology, Health Studies, and Mathematics. Upper-year core courses explore microbiology, embryology, histology, human anatomy, molecular biology, and other areas fundamental to the health sciences.

First-year courses you'll take:

Upper Year Courses

Beginning in second year, you'll take a wide variety of science and elective courses. Here's a sampling of some of our course offerings beyond first year.

• Fundamentals of Microbiology
• Basic Organic Chemistry 1/Laboratory
• Human Physiology Laboratory
• Human Anatomy
• Embryology
• Introduction to Applied Microbiology
• Molecular Biology
• Histology
• Microbiology Laboratory

For a detailed list of all biomedical sciences courses, click here.

To find out what courses you will be taking in your 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years, click here.

Beyond UW

Because our biomedical sciences program emphasizes research and computer skills, employers find that our students are valuable team members who quickly learn new techniques and who are able to quickly problem solve.

What Our Grads Are Doing Now

• Research Technician, Ottawa General Hospital Eye Institute
• Physician, City of Oakville
• Epidemiologist, Brant County Health Unit
• Respiratory Therapist, London Health Sciences Centre
• Dentist, Young Street Dental Group

To see what other careers students are following, click here.

Important Information

For information on admission requirements, financing and housing, click here.

* Biomedical Sciences was previously called Pre-Optometry/Pre-Health