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New Student Registration Procedures and Course Information
- New graduate students must meet with the Director of Graduate
Studies, Jim Fuchs, prior to initial registration in the Graduate
School. Jim may be reached at 612-624-1215 or fuchs001@umn.edu.
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Standard Trial Program
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The MBS Standard Trial Program is a trial program
for students who's GPA is below the minimum Graduate School
entrance requirement (preferred undergraduate grade point average (GPA)
of 3.00 - on a 4.00 scale), prior to entering the program.
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Students accepted into the Standard Trial Program
must meet the following requirements: maintain a GPA of 3.25
or higher for six credits related to biological sciences taken
at the 4xxx level or higher, taken during one semester or two
consecutive terms with no incompletes or withdrawals.
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The Graduate School and the MBS Program will
review a student's progress after the six credits requirements
have been met. Students passing the MBS Standard Trial Program
will be admitted to the regular MBS Program and courses taken
for the Standard Trial Program will count toward the MBS degree.
Tuition Information
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Graduate-level tuition benefits offered to University
of Minnesota employees through Regents Scholarship or Academic
Staff Tuition Benefit programs will no longer be taxable effective
January 1, 2002. Change is part of the Economic Growth and Tax
Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, which provides an income
exclusion of up to $5250 annually for employer-provided educational
assistance. For more information, call 612-625-2016.
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Filing Degree Program
- Forms for filing your degree program are available at:
Graduate School
316 Johnston Hall
or
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Degree Program Forms should be reviewed by your
Advisory Committee and signed by your Advisor after completion
of about 10 semester credits. The Degree Program Form should
then be submitted to the Graduate School.
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The Graduate School requires that courses must
have been taken no more than 7 years prior to graduation. To
include courses older than 7 years (including transfer courses),
a petition form must be signed by your advisor and the DGS.
Expected term and year of graduation are required on this form.
The petition form must then be filed with the Graduate School.
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Graduate School Student Services and On-Line Forms
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Transferring Credits into the M.B.S. Program
- A maximum of 10 semester credits may be transferred into the
program. Acceptibility of courses for transfer into the program
will be determined by the DGS and student's advisory committee.
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Courses being transferred into the program must
have been taken no more than 5 years prior to admission to the
M.B.S. Program.
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Transfer of graduate level credits into the
M.B.S. Program is done at the time of filing your Degree Program.
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Advising
- Students will be assigned (will choose) one major advisor.
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An Graduate Faculty Committee consisting of
3 faculty (including the major advisor) will be assigned to
(chosen by) each student. This will usually occur about the
time the degree program is filed. The graduate faculty committee
should provide guidance for selection of relevant courses for
the student's program and provide guidance for and evaluation
of the capstone project.
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Tips/etiquitte for contacting potential faculty
mentors / capstone advisors
- Do your homework before you contact a potential faculty
mentor - find out about their research areas before you contact
them. If they are a good match for yourinterests, contact
them personally by phone or email.
- Do NOT send blanket emails requesting a mentor/advisor.
- Make an appointment. Many faculty are too busy for unexpected,
drop-in visit
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Maintaining M.B.S. Student Status
- To maintain graduate student status, it is necessary to register
bothSpring and Fall terms to remain active in the program
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Students who do not registered in Graduate
School each term (summer session is excluded) become inactive,
and must seek readmission to be able to register. A "Change
of Status/Readmission" form must be filed and approved before
students will be permitted to register. Forms are available
in 309 Johnston Hall or at http://www.grad.umn.edu/admissions
- Grad 999 is a course number set up for students who do not
wish to register for a regular course during a given term. This
is a NO COST, NO CREDIT course offered by the Graduate School
to allow students to maintain "Active Status." This
course number can be found under the Graduate School listing
of the online catalog.
Courses and Grading
- Grading for Directed Studies may be A-F or S-N
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Grading for Directed Research will be S-N
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Limit of 7 semester credits for combined Directed
Studies (Biol 6793) and Directed Research (Biol 6794) - Directed
Studies/Research requires an agreement form to be signed by
the course advisor and the Director of Graduate Studies. Directed
Studies Agreement Form
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Limit of 10 semester credits of S-N grading
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Limit of 15 semester credits of 4XXX level courses
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Cancel/Add Classes After the Deadline
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Fill out the form and have it signed by your
advisor.
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Mail or deliver the form to 316 Johnston Hall.
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The Scholastic Committee will make a decision
within 10 days and return the decision to you by email.
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Ethics Training
- The Graduate School highly recommends ethics training for
all graduate students.
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The following websites contains useful information
on policies, resource materials and workshops:
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Application for Degree
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Capstone Project
- Provides an opportunity for M.B.S. students to tie together
what they have learned in their coursework with their present
positions or career goals.
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May be (but is not limited to) a literature
review, a written summary of a research experience, an environmental
impact statement, development of course content, develoment of a product, or a project
relevant to a student's workplace.
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Is worth 2 credits toward the M.B.S. Degree
and should represent at least 100 hours of work.
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Will be approved by a 3-member graduate faculty
committee, which is the same committee required for the degree
program. One committee members will be the capstone project
advisor.
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Capstone Project Agreement Form: A Capstone
Project Agreement form is required to be signed by a student's
capstone advisor and Director of Professional Studies to ensure that the project will be suitable to satisfy the capstone requirement.
Permission to register for Biol 6999 will not be granted until
the Capstone Project Agreement form has been signed. The MBS Capstone Project Agreement forms may be downloaded
from this site or are available from the BioLink office. The
student, advisor and program should each have a copy of the
agreement.
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Capstone course designator and number:
Biol 6999
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Capstone Submission: The capstone project should be double-spaced
and be accompanied by a one-page ABSTRACT.
Paper copies: Four paper copies of the capstone project are required.
Three copies should be disitributed to your three committee
members and one copy should be submitted to:
BioLink
College of Biological Science
123 Snyder Hall
1475 Gortner Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55108
Electronic copy: Please submit an electronic copy of your CAPSTONE and ABSTRACT to biolink@umn.edu.
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Oral Capstone Defense:
When a capstone project has been approved, the
student will schedule an oral exam with his(her) capstone committee
to defend the capstone project.
Please inform Carol Gross of the time and place
of your capstone defense by phone or email (612-625-3133 or
cgross@cbs.umn.edu).
Capstone titles from graduated
M.B.S. students
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Commencement Ceremony
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Resources
- Writing Assistance
- Financial Aid
- Graduate School Forms
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