Doctor of Chiropractic Degree
Doctor of Chiropractic
Program Overview
Become the Chiropractor You’re Meant to Be.
At Life University, chiropractic isn’t simply a degree you earn—it’s a profession you learn to live. Our 14-quarter Doctor of Chiropractic program combines rigorous science, early hands-on training, and LIFE’s vitalistic philosophy to help you understand both how to care for patients and why chiropractic matters.
From your first quarter through clinical experience, you’ll develop the knowledge, confidence, and practical skills to assess, adjust, and care for people at different stages of life. You’ll learn alongside experienced faculty and a community rooted in chiropractic while developing your own approach to practice, leadership, and patient care.
You’ll leave Life U with more than D.C. after your name. You’ll be prepared to make it mean something.
What You’ll Learn
Build Your Skills from the Start.
At LIFE, hands-on chiropractic training begins early. Through foundational sciences, technique courses, and innovative learning technologies, you’ll develop the knowledge and skills that prepare you for future patient care.
Palpation and Adjustment Trainer (PAT)
Practice and refine your adjusting techniques with LIFE’s PAT technology, which provides immediate feedback to help students develop precision, control, and confidence before entering clinical training. Explore PAT Technology.
Early exposure to palpation, analysis, fundamental skills in technique, and radiology sets you up to enter advanced labs with confidence by Quarter 4.
Push your technique to the next level. Through labs and case-based learning, you’ll sharpen diagnostic skills and refine core techniques such as Full Spine, Gonstead, Thompson, Chiropractic Biophysics, Extremity Adjusting, Cox Flexion-Distraction, Instrument Adjusting, Technique Strategies, and a variety of elective technique courses, building confidence for clinical practice.
Take your chiropractic training into full clinical practice. You’ll treat real patients, improve and refine your chiropractic adjusting, diagnostic and communication skills, and build essential business and practice management foundations for a successful chiropractic career.
The business courses provide you with everything you will need including a business plan, to have a highly successful practice for any single or multi-practitioner setting and location.
You will spend your final two quarters in a successful chiropractic office and continue developing your skills and exposure to successful business practices.
NEW! D.C. Sports Chiropractic Track
Take your chiropractic education into high-performance environments with Life University’s new D.C. Sports Chiropractic track (DCSC). Designed for students who want to work with athletes and active populations, this track combines chiropractic philosophy, movement science, hands-on care, and real-world experience to prepare you for the fast-moving world of sports performance and recovery. From athlete access to on-field learning opportunities, DCSC gives you a dynamic path to apply your chiropractic training in a powerful new way.
Clinical Experience
From Classroom to Clinic
Life U ensures you are ready for practice with an exceptional level of real-world clinical training. You will work directly with patients in our on-campus clinics, refining your skills in diagnosis, patient care and communication.
The renowned PEAK Program then allows upper-quarter students to complete externships in private practices nationwide, giving you a powerful head start on your professional path and a chance to customize your experience in a variety of special interests (pediatrics, sports chiropractic, prenatal, etc.).
Life U Clinics
Real patients, supervised practice
PEAK Clinical Program
Choose from 100+ affiliate clinics nationwide
Why Life U?
Find Your People. Build Your Future.
There’s something different about studying chiropractic at a university where the profession is at the heart of everything.
At Life U, you’ll be surrounded by people who share your passion, challenge you to grow, and support the chiropractor you’re becoming. You’ll gain the scientific knowledge, hands-on experience, and clinical confidence to pursue your own path—whether that leads to private practice, family care, sports, research, education, or leadership.
This is more than where you’ll earn your D.C. It’s where you’ll begin becoming the chiropractor only you can be.
Where Can Chiropractic Take You?
Your D.C. Can Open More Doors Than You Think.
A Doctor of Chiropractic degree can lead to far more than one career path. Life U graduates take their knowledge, skills and passion into communities around the
world—building practices, caring for families, working with athletes, advancing research and helping shape the future of the profession.
Build Something of Your Own
Create the practice you envision and build a career around the patients and communities you want to serve.
Work in Sports & Human Performance
Help athletes—from youth competitors to elite professionals—move, recover and perform at their best.
Care for Families & Communities
Build lasting relationships while caring for individuals and families through different stages of life.
Teach the Next Generation
Bring your experience into the classroom and help educate future chiropractors.
Advance Chiropractic Through Research
Contribute to the science, evidence and understanding that continues to move the profession forward.
Take Chiropractic Around the World
Serve through international clinics, humanitarian efforts, mission-based care and communities where access to chiropractic may be limited.
Join Us at a Webinar
We’d love to chat with you about our program and answer any questions you might have about the D.C. admissions process.
“I was accepted into Life U by the time I returned home to Puerto Rico and moved to Marietta. It has been the greatest, most beautiful ride I have ever encountered in my life.”
Dr. Véronica García Chaparro
D.C. Alumna
“There is a saying that ‘You don’t choose to be a chiropractor; it chooses you.’ I believe in that phrase…I’m lucky to be learning from very experienced and enthusiastic Doctors of Chiropractic here.”
Dr. Shannon Lord
D.C. Alumna
“Seeing how [Life University doctors] incorporated chiropractic, nutrition, physical activity and a healthy mindset, I knew that this is how I wanted to help others optimize their life.”
Dr. Avery Grossart
D.C. Alumnus
Accreditation
Proven. Respected. Purpose-Driven.
Our program ensures that your education meets the highest standards in chiropractic training, clinical competency and professional ethics. As one of the world’s leading institutions for vitalistic chiropractic education, Life U consistently exceeds accreditation benchmarks while preparing students to thrive. Our graduates are skilled, mission-focused and ready to lead.
The Doctor of Chiropractic degree program at Life University is awarded programmatic accreditation by The Council on Chiropractic Education, 9393 N 90th St., Suite 102-660, Scottsdale, AZ, 85258-5073, Phone: (480)443-8877, Website: www.cce-usa.org.
Purpose at our Core
750+
Degrees Awarded Annually
Life University Institutional Data, Fall 2025
#2
Most Diverse College in Georgia
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95%
First-Year Doctor of Chiropractic Retention Rate
Life University Institutional Data, Fall 2025
