After Graduation

Career Possibilities for Biology Majors

• Health Careers (medical, dental, veterinary, physical therapy)
• Teaching
• State Agencies (EPA, DNR)
• Lab Tech
• Research
• Zoo Assistant
• Technical writer
• Forester
• Law
• Business/Industry

Graduate Programs

Recent Biology graduates have enrolled in the following:

Medical Schools

• The Ohio State University
• University of Toledo
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Cincinnati
• Case Western Reserve
• West Virginia University

Physical Therapy Programs

• Northwestern University
• Duke University
• Case Western Reserve
• The Ohio State University

Veterinary Schools

• The Ohio State University
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Illinois

Graduate Schools

• Ohio University
• The Ohio State University
• University of Florida
• University of Massachusetts
• Cornell University
• Miami University of Ohio
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Wisconsin
• Northwestern University
• Duke University
• University of North Carolina
• University of Oregon
• University of Nebraska
• Yale University

Recent Graduates

• Leeanna Pennington ('06) accepted job working at Brevard Zoo in Melbourne, Florida.
• Heather Nees ('06) is enrolled in the M.S. program at University of Delaware to study oceanography.
• Shannon Poole ('06)is in veterinary school at the University of Minnesota.
• Katlin McCurdy ('06) is teaching high school biology in Canton, OH
• Jennifer Hoehn ('05) was accepted into the NW Ohio Consortium for Public Health for this fall.  Jennifer will also be working part time with an outside organization to pay for graduate school.
• Emmett Keller ('05) has accepted a high school teaching position in inner-city Cleveland.
• Sarah McBeth ('04) was accepted into the Public Health Graduate Program at Yale University, but instead accepted a CDC (Center for Disease Control, Emerging Infectious Disease Lab) fellowship at a state lab in Madison, Wisconsin. After a year with this fellowship, Sarah may choose to attend Yale to work on her M.S. or Ph.D. in public health.
• Sarah Ellis ('04) is attending Ohio University Medical School.
• Andrew Newburn ('04) is attending medical school at the University of Toledo-Health Science Campus