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Pre-Chiropractic Medicine

USA

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What will I learn?

Chiropractic care fills an important role in the healthcare workforce and is a natural choice for patients seeking to avoid drugs or surgery. Using the inherent ability of the body to heal itself, chiropractic doctors focus on the musculoskeletal and nervous systems. Chiropractic care employs a holistic approach to treatment to benefit a patient's overall health and wellness. Doctors of Chiropractic often coordinate care with other health care practitioners and can be an important part of a patient's health care team. The SIU pre-chiropractic curriculum, very similar to the pre-medical curriculum, offers you a strong foundation on which to build your future career in chiropractic medicine.

Pre-chiropractic medicine is not a major at SIU. As a pre-chiropractic student, you are indicating your intention to apply to chiropractic schools. Students will need to select a major in which to earn a degree at SIU.

Chiropractic education is one of the few graduate degree programs that will accept students prior to completion of a bachelor degree. Requirements usually demand completion of 90 hours of undergraduate work including all pre-requisite coursework (often called a 3+3 program). Some of these programs will award you a bachelor's as well as your doctorate degree upon completion.

Which department am I in?

College of Agricultural, Life, and Physical Sciences

Study options

Full Time (Variable)

Tuition fees
US$26,000.00 per year
Start date

September 2025

Venue

College of Agricultural, Life, and Physical Sciences

1205 Lincoln Dr., Room 200,

CARBONDALE,

Illinois,

62901, United States

Entry requirements

For international students

Students need to have Transcripts from high school and/or college. At SIU Carbondale, applicants for admission will be eligible for automatic admission if they are on track to complete our course pattern requirements and who meet one of the following criteria: A cumulative high school GPA of 2.75; A ranking in the top 10% of their graduating class.

English Language Requirement: Any one of the following methods will automatically meet the minimum English requirement. Applicants who do not meet the automatic English language admission requirement will undergo a holistic review to determine potential admissibility.

TOEFL (IBT internet-based test) - 68

TOEFL (paper based test) - 520

ITEP - 4.0 (academic plus only)

IELTS - 6.0

2 Face-to-face English composition classes taken in the U.S. at the college level with a grade of A or B

More than 48 college-level credit hours completed at a U.S. institution

If an applicant is from a country whose primary language is English

Graduation from a U.S. high school having spent the final 2 years in the U.S.

Meeting the SAT or ACT requirements for admission of domestic freshmen

Duolingo English Test (accepted during COVID-19 closures)- 95

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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