Your foot in the door
Earning a Transylvania degree gives you a leg up heading into graduate school. You can take advantage of our graduate partnerships with schools including the University of Kentucky.
Engineering
Pre-Engineering
While at Transylvania, you can participate in the pre-engineering partnership with the University of Kentucky that allows you to take up to six engineering courses at UK for no additional cost. It’s designed to prepare you to go straight into UK’s graduate school for engineering, where you can earn a master’s in engineering in as little as one year after four years at Transy.
3+2 Dual-Degree
Transylvania has a dual-degree program with the University of Kentucky where you’ll attend Transylvania for three years and the UK College of Engineering for two years, earning bachelor’s degrees from both. Degrees include Biosystems Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mining Engineering.
Contacts
Jamie Day
Professor of Physics
Pre-Engineering Advisor
jday@transy.edu
Robin Prichard
Coordinator of Pre-Health Preparation Programs
rprichard@transy.edu
Jeff Hopper
Associate Professor of Business Administration
jhopper@transy.edu
I appreciate the challenge of Transy’s classes and professors and how well they have prepared me for graduate school. I also get all the benefits of a UK student, with access to their facilities and connections for engineering internships.
Andrew Meyer ’17
Medicine
University of Kentucky Early Assurance Program
Transylvania students can take part in the University of Kentucky’s Early Assurance Program with assured admission of up to three students per year into the University of Kentucky College of Medicine-Northern Kentucky Campus—the most recent four-year regional medical school campus for the UK College of Medicine. Through this program, you’ll get special perks like exposure to hospital and office practice, shadowing and mentoring from physicians, MCAT preparation and a one-week boot camp to prepare you for medical school.
Lincoln Memorial University Physician Assistant Program
This partnership will give Transylvania University students a healthy advantage when applying to Lincoln Memorial University’s selective Physician Assistant Program. The Tennessee school will hold three spots each year for qualifying Transylvania grads, and Pioneers will receive support throughout the admissions process. The criteria include earning a competitive GPA in prerequisite courses, having worked with patients and providing letters of recommendation. Transylvania graduates will pursue a Master of Medical Science degree through the program.
Pharmacy
3+4 Pre-Pharmacy and Pharm.D.
Transylvania partners with the University of Kentucky—the #6 pharmacy school in the nation according to U.S. News—on a 3+4 Pre-Pharmacy and Pharm.D. program.
In your three years at Transylvania, you will complete the general education requirements and required UK pre-pharmacy courses, take at least 27 units of course work in residence at Transylvania. You will transfer the equivalent of 9 units of credit from the approved courses at UK back to Transylvania as elective credits to complete your bachelor of arts degree in liberal studies. Because the pre-pharmacy program requires careful planning, students should consult early with chemistry professor Eva Csuhai and continue to work closely with her.
Students must meet the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy admission requirements.
Business
4+1 MBA with UK Gatton College of Business and Economics
The partnership guarantees admission for four Transylvania graduates into the one-year Gatton College of Business and Economics. It also allows for two $20,000 scholarships for Transylvania graduates who meet criteria including a GMAT score of 670 or GRE score of 325, and an undergraduate GPA of 3.5.
Students of all majors are eligible for admission to the program, provided they meet preparatory requirements.
Marshall University Master of Business
While at Transylvania, apply for conditional admission to Marshall University’s MBA program, and you can enroll in courses and participate in activities provided by the Marshall University College of Business and receive program advising from Marshall staff and faculty. You can take business foundation courses at Transylvania that, upon earning at least a B grade, will earn you credit in the graduate-level version of the courses at Marshall.