Admission Requirements
The Comparative Biomedical Sciences (CBMS) Graduate Degree Program offers a path to the MS or PhD degree. To qualify for admission, you must meet the minimum requirements of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School and of the CBMS degree program.
Application Deadlines:
- January 1 for the following fall or summer semester
- June 1 for the following spring semester
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Comparative Biomedical Sciences Degree Program Requirements:
- Graduate School Requirements: All applicants to the Comp Biomed program must meet (and preferably exceed) the requirements of the UW-Madison Graduate School.
- Grade point average: Although grade point averages (GPA) of 3.0 (on a scale of 4.0) meet the requirements of the Graduate School, most applicants accepted into our program have at least a 3.2 GPA.
- Graduate Record Examination: Our program requires that you take the GRE and that GRE scores be submitted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison using code 1846. Although there are no minimum GRE scores required, most accepted students have scores greater than 70% in each of the exam components.
- Coursework requirements: To ensure that all
students have the background to complete the
coursework required for the Comp Biomed degree
program, we require that you have completed undergraduate
coursework in the following three areas:
- Biology: Four courses distributed among three of the following areas of biochemistry or physiological chemistry, genetics, structure and/or function of organisms, and populations or ethology of organisms.
- Chemistry: Two semesters of general chemistry including laboratory, plus one semester of organic chemistry with laboaratory (the lab may be waived if biochemistry or physiological chemistry has been taken.
- Mathematics: Three courses distributed among at least two of the following areas of physics, statistics, computer science, and calculus including differential and integral.
Students lacking one or two of these courses can take them after admission, but these courses cannot be counted towards degree requirements.
