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Graduate

Thank you for your interest in graduate programs in biology at the University of Mississippi. The Department of Biology has a thriving graduate program that offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. Over the last five years our graduate program has included students who have won Fulbright scholarships, NASA Space Grant fellowships, Australian Endeavour scholarships, and National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants, and students in our program routinely place highly in the Graduate School’s Three Minute Thesis competition. We encourage you to read below for descriptions of available programs of study, the research facilities of the department, and other aspects of our graduate programs.