First-Year Admission Prerequisites
Applicants to Drexel University are expected to have completed the high school curriculum that will best prepare them for first-year studies at the college level. Please review the admission prerequisites for your major. To find out which college or school hosts your intended major, review our Undergraduate Majors.
Prerequisites for the following majors: Communication; Criminology and Justice Studies; English; Environmental Studies and Sustainability; Global Studies; History; Philosophy; Philosophy, Politics & Economics; Political Science; Psychology; Sociology; and First-Year Exploratory Studies
- Three years of mathematics (algebra I and II, geometry)
- At least one year of a laboratory science (biology, chemistry, or physics)
Prerequisites for the following majors: Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Mathematics, Physics, Mathematical Statistics, Neuroscience, and Undeclared - Science
- Four years of mathematics (algebra I and II, geometry, and trigonometry or pre-calculus)
- Two years of a laboratory science (biology, chemistry, or physics)
- Four years of mathematics (algebra I and II, geometry/trigonometry, and pre-calculus), one year of calculus preferred/suggested
- One year of chemistry (with lab)
- One year of physics (with lab) preferred/suggested
- Three years of mathematics (algebra I and II, geometry)
- At least one year of a laboratory science (biology, chemistry, or physics)
- Four years of mathematics (algebra I and II, geometry, trigonometry)
- Two years of a laboratory science (biology, chemistry, or physics)
- Three years of mathematics (algebra I and II, geometry)
- At least one year of a laboratory science (biology, chemistry, or physics)
- Four years of mathematics (algebra I and II, geometry/trigonometry, and calculus)
- Two years of a laboratory science (biology, chemistry, or physics)
- Three years of mathematics (algebra I and II, geometry)
- At least one year of a laboratory science (biology, chemistry, or physics)
- Three years of mathematics (algebra I and II, geometry)
- At least one year of a laboratory science (biology, chemistry, or physics)
- Four years of mathematics (algebra I and II, geometry/trigonometry, and pre-calculus)
- One year of chemistry (with lab)
- One year of physics (with lab)
- Three years of mathematics (algebra I and II, geometry)
- At least one year of a laboratory science (biology, chemistry, or physics)
- Three years of mathematics (algebra I and II, geometry)
- At least one year of a laboratory science (biology, chemistry, or physics)
- Three years of mathematics (algebra I and II, geometry)
- At least one year of a laboratory science (biology, chemistry, or physics)
- Three years of mathematics (algebra I and II, geometry)
- At least one year of a laboratory science (biology, chemistry, or physics)
- Three years of mathematics (algebra I and II, geometry)
- At least one year of a laboratory science (biology, chemistry, or physics)
- Three years of mathematics (algebra I and II, geometry)
- At least one year of a laboratory science (biology, chemistry, or physics)
- Three years of mathematics (algebra I and II, geometry)
- Two years of a laboratory science (biology, chemistry, or physics)
- Three years of mathematics (algebra I and II, geometry)
- At least one year of a laboratory science (biology, chemistry, or physics)
- Three years of mathematics (algebra I and II, geometry)
- At least one year of a laboratory science (biology, chemistry, or physics)
- Four years of mathematics (algebra I and II, geometry, trigonometry)
- Two years of a laboratory science (biology, chemistry, or physics)
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