Best Biological and Physical Sciences graduate PHD programs - Updated 2022

The Yale Graduate School and School of Management (SOM) offer a joint MBA PhD program. Joint degree students must complete the core curriculum at SOM in the course of one academic year. During this year they are not registered at the Graduate School. BBS students will complete the core curriculum prior to beginning graduate study or immediately after completing their first year in the BBS program.

Each UCI School of Biological Sciences doctoral program offers focused training and has specific course requirements to prepare students for careers in bioscience research in their area of specialization. While the specifics are customized at the home area level, there is excellent flexibility in academic coursework. Several of our programs operate as gateway programs that offer admission in broad areas of research such as Cellular and Molecular Biosciences or Neuroscience.