Accelerated Five Year BS/MS Program
with a concentration in Microbiology or Molecular biology

Requirements

BIOL 213, 303, 304, 305/306, 307, 311, CHEM 314, 318, and Overall and major GPA of 3.0 or higher.

OR

Completion of 75 undergraduate credits including BIOL 494, and an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher. Three letters of recommendation including one from a thesis/project director.

Specifics

Graduate courses may not be taken until the completion of 90 undergraduate credits. After completion of 120 hours, provisionally accepted students must submit scores on the Graduate Record General and Biology Subject Examinations to become degree students. Ordinarily, scores should total at least 1100 on the verbal and quantitative portions of the general test and be at least in the 50th percentile on the subject examination to attain degree status.

All of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science and the Master of Science with a Concentration in Molecular Biology or Microbiology must be met. The Bachelor of Science is conferred upon satisfactory completion of 120 credits. The Master of Science is conferred after the satisfactory completion of an additional 24 credits. Six credits of graduate work may be used in partial satisfaction of the requirements of the undergraduate degree, and gives the student advanced standing in the MS program. However, a graduate course can be applied to the Master’s program only if a grade of B or better is earned.

For more information, please contact :
Dr. Alan Christensen
(703) 993-1025
achriste@gmu.edu