Many students applying to professional schools are required to complete a number of Biology courses and a sizeable number complete Biology majors. The continued success of applicants accepted to professional schools and positive feedback from them is another informal assessment of the quality of their learning in the Biology courses that they complete at UNK.

Alumni of the Department are typically invited to make presentations in Biology 209, Opportunities in Biology, during the fall semester each year. This serves several purposes: students learn directly from professionals about the array of career prospects in the life sciences; students better understand the connection between their undergraduate preparation and a career area they intend to pursue; and faculty are given an opportunity to hear from alumni about the quality and relevance of their undergraduate experience in Biology in UNK. Typically, alumni indicate that they felt well prepared and that curriculum is of high quality and served them well in advanced work in development of a career.

We continue to receive consistent and regular feedback from both the students and the representatives of the professional schools to which they have been accepted. Students report that they fee! well prepared as they began medical school, dental school, and others of the allied health professional programs.