At the UK College of Health Sciences, our mission is to function as the gateway to the health sciences. We are a doorway that students, faculty, and staff—who seek to touch every aspect of health care—can walk through to their next destination.

It’s these destinations—hospitals, clinics, schools, graduate and professional programs, and more—that define our gateway. Workforce demand for our programs is steadily rising, and with it, the need to produce graduates who are competent, confident, and compassionate in their chosen fields.

We are exploring multiple avenues to meet these needs. Our first path is through offering new education to impact the growing health care landscape. This is why we developed pre-professional opportunities resulting in increased applications to our college.

This student growth is consistently increasing with each year, and we remain number one among UK colleges of comparable size in retention. It’s important to recruit the best and brightest students, but it’s even more important to keep them here. Our college has the highest four-year graduation rate on campus proving our students start and finish with us.

Our commitment to student success is the beating heart of CHS, and we are expanding efforts to financially support our students in their educational journey. I firmly believe no student should have to disrupt their education due to financial strain. Alleviating this burden through new scholarships and endowments plays a large role in our forthcoming strategic initiatives.

At CHS, we can show that education should not be limited by the amount of money in your bank account.

This type of support is sure to bolster the spirit of discovery at our college. Over the years, our undergraduates, graduate candidates, and talented pool of faculty have made CHS the home of a thriving research enterprise. We are dedicated to exploring solutions to some of Kentucky and the world’s most pressing health care questions.

The innovative mind at CHS revolves around helping all people achieve the highest level of health possible. We are excited to create new doors and gateways that allow CHS constituents to further this calling.