Admission

All matriculants must furnish proof of having earned a minimum of 90 semester hour credits applicable toward a baccalaureate degree at an institution or institutions accredited by a nationally recognized agency. Included in these credits must be a minimum of 48 semester hour credits in the courses noted below. For admission beginning with the Fall class 2003, the 90 hour minimum must include at least 30 hours of upper division credit. A baccalaureate degree is not required, but highly recommended.

All matriculants must present a minimum of 48 semester hours? credit distributed as follows:

• English Composition and Communication - 6 semester hours
  Include: English Composition, Writing, Speech, Public
  Speaking, English Composition II, Expository Writing,
  Technical Writing or a Foreign Language
  
• Psychology - 3 semester hours
• Social Science/Humanities Electives - 15 semester hours
  Include: Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Political
  Science, History, Urban Studies, Economics, Marketing,
  Writing, Poetry, Literature, Philosophy, Art, Music, Cultural
  Studies, Foreign Language or World Civilization
  
• Biological Sciences with labs - 6 semester hours
  Include: General Biology, Anatomy, Physiology,
  Zoology or Microbiology
  
• Chemistry - 12 semester hours
  Include: at least 3 semester hours of general chemistry
  or inorganic chemistry, and at least 6 hours of chemistry
  must be organic chemistry and/or biochemistry. At least
  6 semester hours of the chemistry courses must include
  a related lab.
  
• Physics and related studies - 6 semester hours
  Include: The first semester in the General Physics sequence
  with lab. The second semester, can be completed by taking
  General Physics II; or by one of the following courses:
  biomechanics, kinesiology, statistics or exercise physiology.
  

• Science prerequisite courses should be suitable for students majoring in sciences.
• Prerequisite courses must be passed with a grade of at least a 2.0 on a 4.0 Scale.
• The cumulative science grade point average must be a 2.25 or better.
• All matriculants must have earned a cumulative grade point average of at least a 2.50 on a scale of 4.0 for the required courses and for the required 90 semester hours.
• If your college is on a quarter system, one quarter hour = 2/3 of a semester hour. (i.e. 5.0 quarter hours = 3.3 semester hours)

The following physical qualifications are required for participation in the doctoral degree program at the University of Bridgeport College of Chiropractic. These qualifications are essential for the preparation of the Doctor of Chiropractic. Students at the College must be able to perform at a high level of competency in all phases of classroom, clinic, and laboratory activities as they will ultimately use the knowledge attained as Doctors of Chiropractic.

The qualifications are as follows:

1. The student must possess the coordination and use of both upper limbs as their use is required for, among other skills, the performance of the chiropractic adjustment, the primary skill of a practicing Doctor of Chiropractic
2. The student must possess manual dexterity so that he/she may perform in the various clinical, chiropractic, and basic science laboratories without posing a threat to him/herself, patients, or his/her fellow students? safety and well-being.
3. The student must have the ability to stand not only in the performance of manipulative procedures but others as well.
4. The student must have hearing and visual senses, appropriately assisted if needed, acute enough to individually record patient histories, to provide routine safety instructions, and perform stethoscopic and other ausucultatory examinations, to read all forms of diagnostic imaging, and to perform microscopy examinations so that he/she can adequately interpret normal, abnormal, and pathological changes.

Handicapped persons will not be summarily denied admission, nor will higher scholastic requirements be demanded of them. They, like all other students, must carry out classroom, laboratory, and clinical assignments, including microscopic work, x-ray interpretation and techniques, or the equivalent; pass written, oral and practical examinations and meet all requirements of the College.