Carroll University
Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP)

You want a career in health care. Carroll University can help. Whether you’re a high school, undergraduate or graduate student, Carroll’s National Academy Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP) can give you the tools and real-world experiences to help you succeed. HCOP can help wherever you are on your journey. Receive special attention and advising from Carroll’s top-rated healthcare programs.

High School Students  |  Undergraduate Students  |  Graduate Students

Personal and Professional Development

Horizontes at Carroll University

Our weeklong summer residential program gives you an opportunity to explore university life and gain academic, social and life skills that will help you succeed in college. Application is required; HCOP ambassadors are given preference.

Project Pioneer

Our pre-college, academic-year program that includes cultural activities, panel presentations with diverse primary and mental health care professionals and service projects in medically underserved community settings.

Preparing and Advancing Students for Opportunities in Science (PASOS)

If you’re a student graduating from Bruce Guadalupe Middle School or Acosta Middle School, you can apply to join our special CU/UCC PASOS program, which provides personal and professional development activities, including a high school peer mentorship program.

Academic Support

Bridge Program

As an incoming HCOP student at Carroll, you’ll participate in a week-long summer residential college program to support your transition from high school to Carroll. It includes primary care/mental health career exposure activities.

Who is Eligible?

High school juniors and seniors interested in careers in physical therapy, physician assistant, occupational therapy, clinical exercise physiology, athletic training, public health, radiologic technology, diagnostic medical sonography or an undecided health career.

Personal and Professional Development

• Financial aid sessions each semester to understand debt and to be informed on scholarship opportunities
• Mentorship opportunities: Bridge Scholars program, PASOS, Horizontes
• Volunteer opportunities at underserved communities during spring break
• Participate in the Hispanic Collaborative Network Health Access Fair
• Participate in medically underserved community and primary care experiences. Examples include UCC’s Bruce Guadalupe Community School Health Center and Waukesha County Health and Human Services.

Academic Support

• Get individual support sessions, including guidance of your personal study plans
• Participate in one on one meetings each semester to keep your plan on track and to prepare for graduate school
• Participate in the WI area Health Education Centers (AHEC Scholars Program Case Competition)
• Participate in primary care and mental health research experiences

Financial Support

• All undergraduate ambassadors are eligible for a scholarship starting at $5,000. The scholarship will increase every year depending on participation in the program. Stipends available for approved shadowing experiences.

Learn more and apply to the HCOP program

Personal and Professional Development

• Engage in Common Read to bring students together as a community by creating common ground for discussion
• Participate in primary care, community-based care, rural and medically underserved communities, and career exploration
• Participate in leadership development activities and work life balance planning

Academic Support

• First year ambassadors participate in the Graduate School Student Success Transition Program, which includes intro to study skills, time management and test preparation for national boards
• Participate in cognitive skills development and learning strategies
• The Plan for Graduate School Success program
• Participate in one-on-one writing consultations to review grad level writing
• Participate in National Board Examination test preparation strategy sessions

Financial Support

• All 500 level graduate ambassadors are eligible for a scholarship of $7,500. Stipends available for approved clinical experiences.

HCOP Graduate Student Application

Applications are now closed. Applicants will be notified of a decision by mid-April.

• Athletic training
• Clinical exercise physiology
• Diagnostic medical sonography
• Occupational therapy
• Physical therapy
• Physician assistant
• Public health
• Radiology technology
• Undecided health career

• United Community Center
• Boys and Girls Club
• Wisconsin Area Health Education Centers
• Center for Health Care Careers of Southeastern Wisconsin
• Data You Can Use
• Wisconsin Primary Health Care Association
• Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers
• Medical College of Wisconsin