This program falls under the pre-requisites category. Here, you can take a number of pre-reqs for graduate school. Although they say that it is intended for those who want to enter the health sciences, I don't see why it wouldn't work for anyone else. They recommend checking with programs you want to apply to beforehand to make sure the courses will be accepted, although many health programs will accept them. So you should probably check with any non-health graduate program you're interested in too. The biggest pluses for me are Organic Chemistry I & II and Microbiology.
All courses are designed to be completed in 16 weeks. And they do have labs! The labs are virtual, using a software program, so you don't have to live anywhere near Maine in order to take the lab part, and you don't have to work with anyone else (including the instructor!) to do your labs! Each course is pretty expensive, but if you were to attend a regular school, you'd have to take filler courses just to get financial aid in order to be a full-time student. These other schools would also charge more than base tuition and fees so that you'd be looking at $11,000 and up just to get your pre-reqs for grad school. (And of course, that's only for one year.) That's the other great thing about these courses--they are completely self-paced, so you can take up to a year to complete them. Total costs for each course comes out to around $1340.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Illinois Institute of Technology: Biology (Online)
This program doesn't sound too bad, but without on-campus labs or a thesis project, I don't see how it could be all that useful, especially at the high cost of attendance.
Application Deadline: Dec. 15 , May 10, Aug. 1
Application Cost: $40
Degrees Offered: PSM (Professional Science Masters)
Min. GPA: 3.0
Min. GRE: required of international students, students with GPA between 2.5 and 3.0, or at request of admissions committee; in any of the aforementioned cases a min. score of 1100 combined is required.
Subject GRE: Not required
Pre-requisites:
Bachelor's in Biology
Recommendend courses: genetics, cell biology, and biochemistry
Interesting Courses: Medical Microbiology, Virology, Toxicology, Advanced Microbiology
Areas of Emphasis: Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Cell and Molecular Biology
Total Cost of Attendance: $32,013 (This is for full-time, on-campus; I couldn't find anything about the cost of just the online program, but maybe it's the same.)
Comprehensive exam required at the end, which may mean having to go to Chicago to do it. There is no thesis option available.
Required to take some stupid business, communication, etc. ("professional" courses--a major drawback of the program.)
Application Deadline: Dec. 15 , May 10, Aug. 1
Application Cost: $40
Degrees Offered: PSM (Professional Science Masters)
Min. GPA: 3.0
Min. GRE: required of international students, students with GPA between 2.5 and 3.0, or at request of admissions committee; in any of the aforementioned cases a min. score of 1100 combined is required.
Subject GRE: Not required
Pre-requisites:
Bachelor's in Biology
Recommendend courses: genetics, cell biology, and biochemistry
Interesting Courses: Medical Microbiology, Virology, Toxicology, Advanced Microbiology
Areas of Emphasis: Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Cell and Molecular Biology
Total Cost of Attendance: $32,013 (This is for full-time, on-campus; I couldn't find anything about the cost of just the online program, but maybe it's the same.)
Comprehensive exam required at the end, which may mean having to go to Chicago to do it. There is no thesis option available.
Required to take some stupid business, communication, etc. ("professional" courses--a major drawback of the program.)
Monday, December 13, 2010
California State University-Chico: Environmental Science
Potential Advisors: None! All but one of these people is not a geologist (and he's an ornithologist). Sounds like the program must be geology based since it is combined with geology and has so many geologists on staff.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Prescott College-Environmental Studies
Note: This is an online program that is also available on campus.
Deadlines: April 15; Sept. 15 (but begins awarding aid in March, but these are the financial deadlines for fellowships)
Application Fee: $40
Min. GRE: Not required to submit GRE.
Subject GRE: Not required.
Min. GPA: N/A
Interesting Courses: Watershed Restoration, Advanced Readings in Conservation Biology, Advanced Readings in Carnivore Conservation and Management,
Areas of Emphasis: Conservation Ecology and Planning, Environmental Education, Sustainability Science and Practice, Social Ecology
Total Cost of Attendance: $20,946
Pre-requisites: None specified, but you should have a background in natural sciences, environmental advocacy, environmental education, alternative energies, sustainability studies, conservation biology, or resource management. Deficiencies can be made up.
Financial Aid: Graduate Fellowships awarded to students by faculty from the pool of applicants. Generous and renewable, provided you have good academic standing. TA'ing is an option if you plan to attend on campus. Pay is $6,000 per semester if teaching 20 hours/week. Otherwise, you're stuck with loans.
Drawbacks: Must attend 2 colloquia, lasting 3 days, per term (about eveyr 3 mos.)
Deadlines: April 15; Sept. 15 (but begins awarding aid in March, but these are the financial deadlines for fellowships)
Application Fee: $40
Min. GRE: Not required to submit GRE.
Subject GRE: Not required.
Min. GPA: N/A
Interesting Courses: Watershed Restoration, Advanced Readings in Conservation Biology, Advanced Readings in Carnivore Conservation and Management,
Areas of Emphasis: Conservation Ecology and Planning, Environmental Education, Sustainability Science and Practice, Social Ecology
Total Cost of Attendance: $20,946
Pre-requisites: None specified, but you should have a background in natural sciences, environmental advocacy, environmental education, alternative energies, sustainability studies, conservation biology, or resource management. Deficiencies can be made up.
Financial Aid: Graduate Fellowships awarded to students by faculty from the pool of applicants. Generous and renewable, provided you have good academic standing. TA'ing is an option if you plan to attend on campus. Pay is $6,000 per semester if teaching 20 hours/week. Otherwise, you're stuck with loans.
Drawbacks: Must attend 2 colloquia, lasting 3 days, per term (about eveyr 3 mos.)
Monday, November 1, 2010
Colorado State University-Biology (Botany and Zoology)
Application Deadlines: Jan 15, Nov 1
Degrees Offered: MS, PhD
Min. GPA (Generally): 3.0
GRE (Generally): above 70th percentile
Subject GRE: Not mentioned, so probably not required.
TA'ing: Not required, pays tuition (but only out-of-state for the first year); fill out form when applying
RA'ing: Generally follows the same guidelines as TA'ing; not much information about it; fill out form when applying
Both TA'ing and RA'ing come with a small health benefit IF you get on the school's health insurance. You must work a minimum of 10 hours per week and be a full-time student (at least 6 credits). Support assistantships are also available; these are in administrative offices.
Interesting Sounding Courses: Plant Identification, Poisonous Plants, Aquatic Vascular Plants, Introductory Phycology, Introductory Mycology, Comparative Morphology of Vascular Plants, Global Change Ecology: Impacts and Mitigation, Molecular Ecology, Parasitology and Vector Biology, Ecological Plant Morphology, Topics in Mycology, Presenting Research in Biology, Reproductive Biology of Higher Plants, Molecular Aspects of Plant Development, Phytoremediation, Plant Metabolism, Global Environmental Change: Challenges for Ecology and Economies
Total Cost of Attendance, In-state: $22,316 ($9,164 tuition)
Total Cost of Attendance, Out-of-state: $34,604 ($20,752 tuition)
Potential Advisors: Dr. von Fischer's Webpage (interesting, but really into biogeochem and things that I don't have a background in; microbial ecology and plants affecting each other), see ecology,
No information on pre-requisites.
Degrees Offered: MS, PhD
Min. GPA (Generally): 3.0
GRE (Generally): above 70th percentile
Subject GRE: Not mentioned, so probably not required.
TA'ing: Not required, pays tuition (but only out-of-state for the first year); fill out form when applying
RA'ing: Generally follows the same guidelines as TA'ing; not much information about it; fill out form when applying
Both TA'ing and RA'ing come with a small health benefit IF you get on the school's health insurance. You must work a minimum of 10 hours per week and be a full-time student (at least 6 credits). Support assistantships are also available; these are in administrative offices.
Interesting Sounding Courses: Plant Identification, Poisonous Plants, Aquatic Vascular Plants, Introductory Phycology, Introductory Mycology, Comparative Morphology of Vascular Plants, Global Change Ecology: Impacts and Mitigation, Molecular Ecology, Parasitology and Vector Biology, Ecological Plant Morphology, Topics in Mycology, Presenting Research in Biology, Reproductive Biology of Higher Plants, Molecular Aspects of Plant Development, Phytoremediation, Plant Metabolism, Global Environmental Change: Challenges for Ecology and Economies
Total Cost of Attendance, In-state: $22,316 ($9,164 tuition)
Total Cost of Attendance, Out-of-state: $34,604 ($20,752 tuition)
Potential Advisors: Dr. von Fischer's Webpage (interesting, but really into biogeochem and things that I don't have a background in; microbial ecology and plants affecting each other), see ecology,
No information on pre-requisites.
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