MS students can take classes with award-winning faculty and pursue cutting edge research in the Biology Department at NYU. We are located in Greenwich Village, the best neighborhood in the world's most influential city. Students are also encouraged to take advantage of all that NYC has to offer, including interacting with the legal, entertainment, pharma, global health and tech industries.
Students are encouraged to build their own course curricula and research plans and will have opportunities for collaborations with other departments and institutes, including NYU's Chemistry and Physics departments, the Sackler Institute at the NYU Langone Medical School, the Center for Neural Science, the Courant Institute for Mathematical Science, and the New York Genome Center.
The Master of Science degree program, designed for full-time and part-time students, provides a comprehensive foundation in modern biology. Specialized master's-level tracks in biological sciences, bioinformatics and systems biology, oral biology, and recombinant DNA technology are available.
The M.S./M.B.A. program, offered jointly by the Graduate School of Arts and Science and the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, leads to an M.S. degree in biology (GSAS) and an M.B.A. (Stern). This program meets a need for academic preparation and training of scientist-managers and research directors for the biotechnology and pharmacology industry, academic industrial liaison personnel, and investment specialists for the financial sector.
Applications for admission to the M.S. Program are accepted for Fall or Spring admission. Applicants for admission to the M.S. program must have successfully completed an undergraduate major in a science or followed a pre-health curriculum (B average or better generally required) and must submit three letters of recommendation.
Testing: The TOEFL or IELTS is required for foreign applicants. The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is optional. We will consider GRE test scores if they are submitted. Scoring well on the test may strengthen your application, especially if you perceive that you have weaknesses in your prior academic record. Not taking the test will not adversely affect your application and we will make no assumptions about why you did not take a test. DAT and MCAT scores are optional for Oral Biology/General Biology and will be considered if submitted. GMAT scores are optional for Biology/Business and will also be considered if submitted. Send official GMAT test scores to GSAS using school code 5TF-5G-76. Also separately send GMAT scores to Stern where the GMAT is required, using their GMAT school code.
For more application information, please visit the GSAS Application Resource Center website.
Application deadlines for Master's programs:
Students are awarded a Master of Science degree on (1) completion of 36 points with an average of B or better and (2) satisfactory completion of a qualifying research paper (commonly called a thesis). Of the 36 points required, 24 must be from the Department of Biology at New York University. All entering M.S. students typically take Bio Core 1 (BIOL-GA 1001) and Bio Core 2 (BIOL-GA 1002). See individual tracks below for additional curriculum information.
