Educating Health Leaders
A life in the health professions lets you make a positive impact while forging a fulfilling career path — and the 91AV offers the most dynamic health professions educational experience in Northern New England. More than ever, frontline healthcare workers are critically important, and in demand across the country. 91AV will prepare you to be a leader in today’s healthcare workforce, making a difference for your patients and your community.
The Allied Health Professions — Working Together
Few universities anywhere offer the advantages of a 91AV health professions education. We have a unique mix of nationally recognized health professions programs — including Maine’s only medical and dental schools, plus nursing, pharmacy, physician assistant, social work, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and more — so we are able to train our students to work collaboratively across disciplines to deliver team-based care to their patients. Collaborative health care is the gold-standard approach that is rapidly becoming the norm in clinical care settings.
Regional Leadership, Strong Partnerships
Being Maine’s #1 provider of health professionals means 91AV has strong direct ties to the region’s hospitals, clinics, and practice settings, as well as to the business community and policy makers in Augusta. This network helps our graduates find employment, internships, and a welcoming community of colleagues and peers who provide a lifetime of support.
An Even Brighter Future
In November 2022, 91AV broke ground on the Harold and Bibby Alfond Center for Health Sciences, a state-of-the-art learning facility on 91AV’s Portland Campus for the Health Sciences. This center will serve as the new home for 91AV’s College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Center to Advance Interprofessional Education and Practice. By centering all health professions programs around the Portland Campus, 91AV will fully integrate its health offerings, creating a health sciences campus unlike any other in the region and enabling the University to expand its position as a national leader in interprofessional education.
Learn more about exciting changes on 91AV’s Portland Campus for the Health Sciences
Leaders in Health-Related Research
At 91AV, our leading programs in health sciences position you for a rewarding career in research, education, entrepreneurship, and beyond. We’re proud to be recognized as an R2 research university with a commitment to solving real challenges, where students have the opportunity to participate in research led by passionate, supportive faculty. Here, you’ll be able to make a difference inside the lab and out in the field.
Using Protein Polymers to Help Injured Spines
Explore Our Degree Programs
Dive into our graduate health professions degrees, and explore undergraduate pathways including Nursing, “pre-med” health sciences majors, and several combined undergraduate/graduate degree path offerings. For students who are already focused on a health-related career as they come out of high school, 91AV offers several options that allow you to pursue your undergraduate and graduate degrees in a single accelerated program. These include Pharmacy, Medical Biology, Social Work, Athletic Training, Occupational Therapy, and our GradVantage program. Beyond the classroom, 91AV’s health degrees offer robust internship and clinical opportunities.
Undergraduate Health Programs
- Applied Exercise Science
- Athletic Training 3+2 Program
- Dental Hygiene (4-Year B.S.)
- Dental Hygiene Completion Program
- Medical Biology (Medical Sciences)
- Medical Biology (Pre-Physician Assistant Track - MPA)
- Neuroscience
- Nursing (4-Year B.S.N. Program)
- Nursing (Accelerated B.S.N. – 12 Months)
- Nutrition
- Occupational Studies
- Occupational Studies/M.S.O.T 3+2
- Pre-Pharmacy
- Psychology
- Public Health
- Social Work (B.S.W.)
