Computational Molecular Biology (MS) at University of Southern California

The Master of Science in Computational Molecular Biology is offered by the Department of Quantitative and Computational Biology for recent graduates in mathematics, statistics, biology or computer science, and for scientists and engineers seeking training in computational biology. It prepares students for employment in computational molecular biology and bioinformatics.

Department: Department of Quantitative and Computational Biology  |  Duration: 32 units  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States

What you will study

The 32-unit degree has 22 required units (molecular biology for quantitative scientists, probability and statistics for computational sciences, data structures and algorithms for science, a computational molecular biology laboratory, the QBIO 578a/b sequence, a seminar and ethics) and 10 elective units such as computational genome analysis, structural bioinformatics, systems biology, statistical and evolutionary genetics and AI in computational biology.

Career pathways

Employment in the rapidly expanding areas of computational molecular biology and bioinformatics.

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