GRE subject: Highly recommended, especially for financial aid
Min. GPA: 3.0; 3.8 for fellowships
GRE scores: above 70th percentile; above 90th percentile for fellowships
No MS required before going for PhD by department, but specific professors might require it.
TAships: $11,263-14,100
RAships: $17,700
Those with fellowships or assistantships get health insurance at little to no cost. It doesn't sound like they will totally cover their grad students, especially out-of-state ones. Consider establishing residency before attending.
Total Cost of Attendance: $38, 815 for out-of-state; $23, 892 for in-state; $25,206 for Minnesota residents
Areas of Emphasis: Plant anatomy/morphology, physiology, taxonomy, cellular and molecular biology, taxonomy, mycology, phycology, ecology, lichenology (though on an obscure, hard to find page).
Courses: Algae; Fungi; Transmission Electron Microscopy Techniques for Plant and Microbial Sciences; Bryophytes; Grassland Ecology; Dendrology; Field Collections and Identification; Plant Geography; Tropical Plant Diversity; Ecological Techniques for Field Monitoring; Plant-Microbe Interactions: Molecular and Ecological Aspects; Fungal Genetics and Development; Plant Pathogenic Fungi; Mineral Nutrition of Plants; Biology and Genetics of Filamentous Fungi; Conservation Biology; Adaptive Restoration Lab; Advanced Mycology; Physiological Plant Ecology; Taxonomy and Evolution of Wild and Domesticated Grasses; Ecological Methods; Community Analysis; and other advanced courses in ecology/mycology/phycology
Potential advisors: Sara C. Hotchkiss, Linda E. Graham, Thomas J. Givnish, Joy Zedler, Paul Zedler
None are specifically looking at lichens or fungi; all seem to have something to do with ecology, however. Graham is looking at algae and bryophytes.
Pre-requisites: These are only "recommended preparation", implying that they either don't have to be made up or can easily be made up.
- Mathematics (up to and including one semester of calculus):
- Statistics (one semester at the college level):
- Chemistry (General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry):
- Physics (College level course including electricity and light):
- Foreign Language (two years at High School or two semesters at college):
- Biology (Strong background in the biological sciences typically including cell biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, and molecular biology).
Mental Health Care: Limit of 10 individual sessions per student per academic year or 20 individual sessions for entire academic career. All sessions are free.
Groups: Dissertation Support Group, Graduate Women's Group, Social Anxiety, Social Skills and Navigating the Dating World, Mindfulness, Meditation, and many others
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