Graduate degrees

Ph.D. in Integrative Biomedical Sciences

The Ph.D. program provides training in veterinary sciences, human and animal health with emphasis on comparative relationships to the biomedical sciences, especially host-pathogen relationships and pathogenesis of human diseases.

The program is designed to provide individualized instruction with a strong emphasis on health and disease. The School has a primary focus on infectious diseases, including biomedicine, bacteriology, immunology, pathology, epidemiology, virology and mechanisms of disease.

Students on 0.49 FTE graduate assistantships are required to work 20 hours per week and register for 9 credit hours each semester and 6 hours during the summer sessions. The student must also register for the seminar series each semester until the degree is completed.

Students are required to complete a dissertation, have one or more first-author articles accepted for publication in a peer reviewed scientific journal and complete a thesis and final exams.