Biotechnology certificate programs

Focus your degree studies with a graduate certificate. Choose degree electives relevant to a certificate topic, and earn a second graduate credential. Build knowledge of the business side of biotech in a 4-course certificate. Build an understanding of the innovation and entrepreneurship process in a 4-course certificate. Through this professional graduate certificate you'll gain the technical and business management skills to initiate, plan, execute, monitor and close a project. The curriculum for this certificate aligns with the Project Management Institute’s talent triangle.

NOTE:International students who need a full-time program should not enroll in this Certificate as it will not qualify them for an F-1 student visa. The Biotechnology Certificate program includes courses in the following:. Every course creditable toward the certificate must be taken for a letter grade.

Begin your certificate any academic quarter that an applicable course is offered, subject to prerequisites. To pursue this graduate certificate you need to apply.

To acquire this experience and knowledge, students can earn a Certificate in Biotechnology Enterprise. This certificate offers the opportunity to learn critical aspects of biotechnology product development, including create a new enterprise, finance, marketing, and other areas of commercialization. This certificate is ideal for students planning to engage in the enterprise of biotechnology beyond the science. Certificate requirements consist of five courses. Students who successfully complete the certificate and subsequently decide to seek admission to the master’s degree program in biotechnology or regulatory science will receive credit for three of the courses taken in the certificate toward the master’s degree. Conversely, students who complete their master’s degree first, may count 3 of their enterprise courses toward the certificate. The certificate may be completed fully online or a combination of online and onsite at the Montgomery County Campus.

The Biotechnology Certificate reflects an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental training that is broader than what is available through an individual department. Benefits to the Certificate program include the opportunity to explore a wide array of cutting edge and industrial research opportunities chosen from the life sciences, complemented by a core interdisciplinary curriculum. Students with a certificate would have a broader exposure to cutting edge biotechnology that would better prepare them for entry into the biotechnology industry or to pursue academic and governmental biotechnology research. See Biotechnology Certificate Requirements for specific courses and procedures needed to complete Biotechnology program. Students in the Biotechnology Certificate Program have access to:.

The Biotechnology certificate program gives you the skills employers are looking for to develop today’s products: biochemical process engineering principles, molecular biology practices, and state-of-the-art cloning and expression techniques. The Biotechnology Certificate program is designed to train electrical engineers in the medical uses of diagnostic imaging instrumentation, biotechnology professionals with training in tissue engineering to develop tissue implants, and mechanical engineers who are well-versed in biomaterials to design artificial joints. The certificate program allows students to focus on biomedical instrumentation, biomedical optics, biomaterials biotechnology and tissue engineering or other related areas of study. Through industry-based projects and case studies, the four-course, graduate-level Biotechnology Certificate programs provide you with the fundamentals and practical considerations in the field, including construction of recombinant DNA and the production of enzymes, therapeutic proteins, vaccines and small-molecule primary and secondary metabolites. Two certificate tracks are available.

Certificates are targeted to those who want to advance their careers without getting a master’s degree. Graduate Certificate in Biotechnology: Designed in response to a need in the biotechnology industry for individuals without a biotechnology background to obtain a strong foundation in basic biotechnology concepts and skills. Graduate Certificate in Experimental Biotechnology: Designed in response to a need in the biotechnology industry for individuals without a biotechnology background to obtain a strong foundation in lab based, hands-on, biotechnology skills. Graduate Certificate in Molecular Biotechnology: Designed in response to a need in the biotechnology industry for individuals with an advanced knowledge of the principles and practices of state-of-the-art molecular biology techniques and advanced protein structure analysis. Graduate Certificate in Process Sciences: Designed in response to a need in the biotechnology industry for individuals with an advanced knowledge of the principles and practices of process development of biopharmaceuticals. Graduate Certificate in Biopharmaceutical Analytical Sciences: Designed in response to a need in the biotechnology industry for individuals with an advanced knowledge of the principles and practices of state-of-the-art analyses of protein structures with focus on the characterization and quantification of proteins and variant derivatives. Graduate Certificate in Pharmaceutical Technologies: Designed in response to a need in the biotechnology industry for individuals with an advanced knowledge of the principles and practices of the stages of drug development, biopharmaceutical development. Graduate Certificate in Regulatory Science: Designed in response to a need in the biotechnology industry for individuals, in particular regulators, to obtain a strong foundation in the science behind good regulatory practice today, specifically in relation to biopharmaceuticals.

Biotechnology Quality and Regulatory Compliance Graduate Certificate (Hybrid). The admissions process selects highly qualified applicants into the graduate certificate program by considering each of the following criteria in judging the overall strength of the applicant.

The Certificate in Biotechnology requires 15 credits of graduate level course work consisting of:. Only graduate courses completed with a grade of B or higher fulfill the biological sciences core and the biotechnology-related course requirements for the Certificate in Biotechnology. It is expected that the Certificate in Biotechnology will be primarily a part-time program or pursued along with another graduate degree. As such, the only enrollment requirement is that matriculated students must enroll in at least one certificate class per academic year and the certificate must be completed within five years. Upon completion of the Certificate requirements, the Director of the program will submit the approved plan of study form to the Office of Graduate and Professional Education for audit. The University will state on the student’s transcript that the Certificate in Biotechnology was awarded. A diploma for the certificate program is not awarded to the student.

Certificate description: The objective of the Graduate Certificate in Data Science and Analytics is to enable students from multiple different graduate programs at the University of Missouri to receive education and training in the emerging field of Data Science. This certificate will also support the University of Missouri’s strategic goals of increasing interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving. At the conclusion of the Graduate Certificate in Data Science and Analytics, students will:. Certificate web site: Not created at this time.