The written qualification exam will be held on Wednesday, November 25, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
The written proficiency exam consists of 12 questions determined by the Proficiency Committee. Students taking the exam will be required to answer 8 of these questions.
Students must score at least 70/100 on the written qualification exam. Students who do not pass the written qualification exam will not be eligible to take the oral exam. A minimum score of 50/100 is required on the oral qualification exam. The arithmetic mean of the written and oral qualification exams must be at least 70/100.
The exam location will be announced at a later date.
Doctoral Qualifying Course Pool (courses offered in the last 4 semesters and defined in the FBE curriculum)
MBG5117 Advanced Environmental Biology
MBG5118 Physiological Ecology
MBG6103 Plant Biotechnology
MBG6121 Recent Advances in Molecular Biology and Genetics
MBG6110 Cell Cultures
MBG6114 Molecular Microbiology
MBG6125 The RNA World
MBG5120 DNA Fingerprinting
MBG5121 Medical Polymers
MBG6105 Bioinformatics Analyses
MBG5112 Preparative Separation and Purification Techniques
MBG6115 Biotransformation in Organic Chemistry
MBG5113 Recombinant DNA Technology and Genetic Engineering
MBG5115 Advanced Forensic Genetic Analysis Methods
MBG5119 Protein Structure and Engineering
MBG6112 Advanced Nucleic Acid and Protein Biochemistry
MBG6113 Cancer Genetics and Intracellular Signaling Systems
MBG5122 Synthetic Biology
MBG6116 Applications of the Polymerase Chain Reaction
MBG6106 Recent Advances in Biotechnology