Admission to Program
After completing 60 hours of undergraduate coursework, students will apply to take 4 graduate courses (12 credit hours) prior to formal admission to the M.S. program in spring of Year 2.
Students need to have the recommended 3.5 GPA to apply to take graduate courses.
Curriculum
Graduate-level courses that may be used to satisfy undergraduate and graduate program requirements.
• BIOS 7010, Introductory Biostatistics I (3 credit hours)
• MIBO 6090, Prokaryotic Biology (3 credit hours)
• MIBO 8120, Foundations of Microbiology (5 credit hours)
Additional requirements that are unique to this Double Dawgs program:
Students must take the core set of courses required for all Microbiology graduate students, which are MIBO 8600 (Prokaryotic Cell Biology), MIBO 8610 (Prokaryotic Physiology and Diversity), and MIBO 8150 (Seminar in Microbial Research).
Students take additional graduate-level courses in lieu of conducting an original research project and preparing a Master's thesis.
Admission to Graduate Program
Students will formally apply to the M.S. program in the fall of Year 4.
After completing 90 hours of undergraduate coursework, students will formally apply to the M.S. program.
• Students need to have a recommended 3.0 GPA to apply to the M.S. program.
• Students must complete all MIBO graduate courses before they can obtain the M.S.