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Law
Stephens College offers excellent preparation for students interested in a law career. The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) recommends that students who wish to enter law focus their preparation on advanced skills in reading, writing and speaking; logical and analytical reasoning; and creative thinking. An understanding of human institutions and values, especially those affected by law, is also important. "Taking demanding courses with the best teachers" can develop the mental capacity for exacting work and study.

Stephens College offers a distinctive law-related major called Law, Philosophy and Rhetoric (LPR). This major has been designed to focus on the formation of key skills for successful careers in law and law-related fields and to allow students to pursue study in a second major or one or two minors. LPR, in both its assessment process and curriculum, promotes skills examined in the Law School Admission Test, to enhance our majors law school admissions.

Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine
The Stephens College Department of Natural Sciences specifically offers a dynamic pre-professional course of study for women. The professions of medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine require advanced study at a professional school and require the following pre-professional course of study to be completed by the spring semester of the year in which admission is sought.

English 101 and 102 (1c, 1c)
Mathematics up to, but not including calculus (however, many professional schools require one full year of calculus) (1c–1.5c)
College Chemistry I and II with Laboratory (1.5c, 1.5c)
Organic Chemistry I and II with Laboratory (1.5c, 1.5c)
Physics I and II with Laboratory (Algebra based) (1.5c, 1.5c)
Investigations in Biological Concepts I and II (1.5c, 1.5c)
3.0 to 5.0 course credits in social science and/or humanistic studies

Some schools may require additional courses of study in biochemistry, nutrition, statistics or animal science. Students may wish to take these courses at Stephens College or at the University of Missouri–Columbia through the Mid-Missouri Associated Colleges & Universities (MMACU). Stephens College offers exciting and demanding courses to meet the pre-professional requirements taught by a talented, diversified and dynamic team of faculty who focus especially on women's education in the sciences.