Department will consider applicants who satisfy all requirements for admission to the Graduate School, including an overall undergraduate GPA of 3.00 and satisfactory completion of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) verbal and quantitative sections (total score = 1000 or more). (Refer to the current University catalogue for additional Graduate School requirements.) A joint Departmental Admission Committee (Preventive Medicine and Biochemistry/Molecular Biology) will review all applicants for the Molecular Epidemiology program. Applicants not meeting these requirements may, with approval of the Graduate School, be conditionally admitted. Regular standing is contingent upon maintaining a GPA of 3.50 in the first 12 units of graduate studies.

A minimum of 33 units of core and elective courses are required for the Biostatistics and Applied Biostatistics/Epidemiology degrees; 34 units of core and elective courses are required for the Molecular Epidemiology degree. For all three degrees, electives will be determined by the student’s need and interest, and will be approved by the student’s advisor. When appropriate, courses not listed below may be chosen with approval of the faculty advisor. Sufficient familiarity in computer language to utilize major software packages for data management and statistical analysis is required. For all three degrees a master’s thesis is required of all students. This consists of a research project, approved by the faculty, and chosen from problems encountered within the Department of Preventive Medicine, other departments in the Keck School of Medicine or the University, or elsewhere in the community. In addition to the core and elective course unit requirement, each student must register for 4 units of Thesis (PM 594ab).