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Admissions
Admission is based on a variety of factors including academic achievement
and relevant experience. Prospective students are strongly encouraged to
make early contact with individual faculty members in the group regarding
research opportunities. Applicants are expected to have a faculty sponsor
before admission can be completed; only under exceptional circumstances are
students admitted without faculty sponsorship.
Our faculty page
contains a listing of faculty members within the group with email addresses,
links to detailed research interests information,
and links to their lab websites (if available).
Applications should be
completed by January 5 for admission in the following Fall semester. All
supporting documentation to your application should arrive by that date. At
this time, we are only accepting applications for the Ph.D. We do not
accept applications for the Master's Degree nor for Spring semester
admission.
To apply to our
graduate program:
When applying to
Comparative Biochemistry, you must deal with two sorts of requirements:
program requirements and University requirements. University requirements
are decided upon by the Graduate Division which is the central
organizational body that administers graduate studies on the Berkeley
campus. Program requirements are those requirements that are decided upon
by the Executive Committee for Comparative Biochemistry. You must fulfill
both University and program requirements if you wish to have your
application processed.
The Graduate
Division
requires that all applicants submit a completed application, and:
- undergraduate transcripts, and if applicable,
graduate transcripts (you must have had at least a 3.0 undergraduate
cumulative GPA to apply for graduate studies at Cal);
- three letters of recommendation
- and proof of proficiency in English for
international applicants.
Graduate Division's application
requirements for both domestic and international applicants can be found on
the Graduate Division's admission's requirements webpage http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/admis_require.shtml.
This includes information about transcripts, letters of recommendation, and
the English language proficiency requirement for international students.
Please read through the whole of the requirements.
The University Online
Graduate Application is available online each application cycle beginning
on September 1st at UC Berkeley's Graduate Division website at http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/grad_app.shtml.
The Comparative
Biochemistry program requires all applicants to complete the general
test of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE). For information about the
GRE, please go to the GRE website at http://www.gre.org/.
All scores are viewed competitively on a year-to-year basis, i.e., a score
that is competitively high one year, may not be the next, and vice versa.
On the application
itself, Comparative Biochemistry requirements are:
- you will need to give the names of this program's
faculty whose research is of particular interest to you;
- you will also need to list the other graduate
schools to which are are applying;
- and your Statement of Purpose must be on your
online application (do not send it separately).
NOTE: Again, as
mentioned at the top of this page, applicants are expected to have a
faculty sponsor before admission can be completed; only under exceptional
circumstances are students admitted without faculty sponsorship. Our faculty page
contains a listing of faculty members within the group with email
addresses, links to detailed research interests
information, and links to their lab websites (if available). Prospective
students are strongly encouraged to make early contact with
individual faculty members in the group regarding research opportunities.
The deadline for the
Fall of 2019 is January 5, 2019.
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