Graduate Options

Graduate students in the Division of Biology choose one of three options(majors): biology, biochemistry and molecular biophysics, bioengineering.

Two other cross-disciplinary graduate programs with a biological component are also available at Caltech. The Division of Geology and Planetary Sciences administers a geobiology option, and the Division of Engineering and Applied Science oversees graduate study in computation and neural systems.

Caltech also offers MD/PhD programs in cooperation with the University of Southern California and UCLA.

Graduate Option Representatives: Bruce Hay for Biology, Robert Phillips for Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Niles Pierce for Bioengineering, Joseph Kirschvink for Geobiology, and Shinsuke Shimojo for Computation and Neural Systems.