- A complete application with the application fee.
Deadlines: January 15 for Fall admission or November 1 for Spring admission.
- A personal statement/statement of goals.
In your statement, please consider discussing the following: Your experiences with lab and/or field based research projects, your current interests in Marine Biology, and your professional goals in pursuing an M.S. degree.
- One official transcript from each institution of higher learning attended.
- OPTIONAL: An official copy of scores from the general test of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE).
- Newly implemented as an optional addition for admission beginning 2024.
- For more information, contact Craig Plante, program director, at plantec@cofc.edu.
- OPTIONAL: An official copy of scores from the subject (biology) test of the GRE.
- Three letters of recommendation from persons closely associated with previous work related to the discipline.
- Undergraduate coursework in the sciences:
- A bachelor’s degree.
- Twenty semester hours of upper division biological courses, including a course in cellular or molecular biology (or the equivalent) and a course in ecology (or the equivalent).
- Chemistry - at least one upper-level course (beyond general chemistry).
- General Physics - two courses.
- Calculus - one course.
*Students with otherwise outstanding academic preparation who may lack one of the required courses may be admitted, but could be required to complete the missing courses.
- A résumé.
- Evidence of a command of spoken and written English (TOEFL or IELTS score).
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