College-wide Requirements: In addition to meeting the requirement in General Education and in the major, students must also complete six (6) credits in the Liberal Arts Core required of all majors in the College of Arts and Sciences. Options for satisfying this requirements are outlined under the section on the College of Arts and Sciences. Also, in order to qualify for gradation, students must pass the Senior Departmental comprehensive Examination; must have taken all of their junior - and senior-level requirements in the major at Morgan (unless granted prior written permission by the Dean to take courses elsewhere); and must have earned a cumulative average of 2.0 or better and a major average of 2.0 or better, with no outstanding grades below "C" in the major (which includes all courses required for the major and required supporting courses).

MASTER OF SCIENCE - BIOINFORMATICS

The required curriculum for completion of the program consists of a total of 38 credits: 12 credit hours from the Bioinformatics Core Courses; 12 credit hours of Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics Core Courses; 6 credit hours of Elective Courses from Bioinformatics, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, and other appropriate disciplines; 2 credit hours of Seminar in Bioinformatics; and, 6 credit hours of Thesis Research in Bioinformatics. The cross-disciplinary nature of the curriculum offers great flexibility based on the student’s personal scientific interests and background, through the broad range of course offerings available.