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A PROFESSIONAL, GRADUATE MASTER'S DEGREE IN
THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
A professional Master of Biological Science (M.B.S.) degree is
offered at the University of Minnesota,
in basic biology, with concentrations in areas including biochemistry,
biology (animal, plant, cell, applied and general), bioinformatics,
biotechnology, biophysics, ecology, environmental studies, evolution,
food science and nutrition, genetics, microbiology, molecular biology
and neuroscience, and regulatory affairs.
The program is administered by the College
of Biological Sciences and the M.B.S. degree is conferred by
the U of M Graduate School.
MISSION
The mission of the Master of Biological Science program is to
provide flexible, independently designed, graduate-level, practitioner-based
education to members of the working community who wish to increase
their knowledge of modern biology, and to award the master's degree
at the completion of the program.
M.B.S. PROGRAM GOALS
The M.B.S. degree is a highly flexible graduate-level practitioner-based
program offered to meet the needs of members of the working community
who wish or need to increase their knowledge in areas related to
modern biology. The program provides educational opportunities beyond
those that aim at maintaining and improving productivity within
the professions, which include graduate-level training and credentialing.
It fills a gap in the present educational system for those who have
neither the time nor the flexibility to earn a graduate degree through
more traditional channels. The program provides this population
with the most current information and advanced skills in their areas
of professional interest, and gives them acknowledgment for their
achievement. The degree enables recipients to learn new job skills,
change professional emphasis, or provide added value to their present
job.
The program includes course work, seminars, independent study,
workshops, and a capstone project. With guidance from faculty advisors,
students complete 30 semester credits. The M.B.S. degree
- is not intended as a stepping-stone to a doctoral program;
rather, its primary function is to aid working adults interested
in expanding their base of knowledge in one or more areas of
the biological sciences and to add to their professional credentials.
- is separate and distinct from the Master of Science degrees
in biological disciplines where degrees are primarily research
oriented and often completed on the way to the Ph.D.
Few graduate programs provide the opportunity to focus on a single
subspecialty suited to the employment needs of the non-traditional
student.
The M.B.S. program is a multi-college, cooperative degree program
with faculty derived from
Academic Health Center (AHC).
College of Agricultural, Food,
and Environmental Sciences (COAFES)
College of Biological Sciences (CBS)
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