Applicants from other States or foreign countries for admission to schools of medicine, dentistry, or pharmacy, or for the licensure to practice medicine, dentistry, or pharmacy within the State of Pennsylvania, who do not hold a diploma from an accredited college, or a certificate of having passed the entrance examination to a first year course in an accredited college, or satisfactory evidence of having graduated from a high school or secondary school, the standard of which shall be equivalent to the standard adopted by the said Bureau of Professional Education, or satisfactory credentials from accredited secondary schools, shall be subjected to an examination by said bureau, and if successful shall be awarded a certificate, setting forth his or her proficiency, by the said Bureau of Professional Education.
71 P.S. § 1024