The Master's in Cell and Molecular Biology program includes a one-year and 4+1 option designed to enhance the competitiveness of students applying to postgraduate professional schools, such as Medical and Dental School, and a two-year option designed to prepare students for a career in biotechnology fields.

The MS requires a minimum of 30 credit hours and a cumulative grade point average of 3.000. Program requirements can be found in the table below. 

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Curriculum Requirements

Students must complete a total of 30 credit hours, with a cumulative GPA of a 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale, in order to receive the MS degree. Students may select from the course list below. Undergraduate students that plan to complete a 4+1 MS must take 2 courses at the 6000 level in the final undergraduate year.

Graduate Courses

Course List

Course ID	Title	Credits
CELL 6010	Cellular Biochemistry	3
CELL 6030	Molecular Biology	3
CELL 6035	Molecular Biology Lab	1
CELL 6050	Foundations of Pharmacology	3
CELL 6070	Neurobiology of Aging	3
CELL 6080	Adv Dev & Cell Biol II	3
CELL 6110	Human Histology	4
CELL 6140	Research Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology	3
CELL 6130	Embryology	3
CELL 6160	Developmental Biology	3
CELL 6180	Biomedical Research in Animals	3
CELL 6200	General Endocrinology	3
CELL 6210	Physiology	3
CELL 6220	Microbiology	3
CELL 6225	Microbiology lab	1
CELL 6230	Virology	3
CELL 6310	Cellular Neuroscience	3
CELL 6320	Systems Neuroscience	3
CELL 6325	Neuroanatomy Lab	1
CELL 6340	Neurobiology of Disease	3
CELL 6350	Developmental Neurobiol	3
CELL 6370	Molecular Neurobiology	3
CELL 6400	Regenerative Biology	3
CELL 6430	Introductory Bioinformatics	3
CELL 6440	Adv Molecular Biology	3
CELL 6450	Genome Biology	3
CELL 6480	Head and Neck Anatomy	3
CELL 6490	Anatomy	4
CELL 6550	Synaptic Organization of the Brain	3
CELL 6560	Pathophysiology	3
CELL 6710	Molecular Biology of Cancer	3
CELL 6750	Cell Biology	3
CELL 6755	Cell Biology Lab	1
CELL 6840	Current Topics Dev Biol	2
CELL 7260	Graduate Communications	3
CELL 7860	Master's Seminar	3

Students may be permitted to take electives from other departments with the approval of the program's Co-Directors.

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For more information, contact the School of Science and Engineering - Department of Cell and Molecular Biology.