The Biological Sciences Department at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) announces a special program for recent graduates of both 3-year and 4-year undergraduate programs in India. This program is directed toward students who have earned undergraduate degrees in biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, and agricultural biotechnology, but suitably qualified students with degrees in other disciplines are invited to apply.
Under this program, accepted students would spend their first year in the program taking online coursework while still in India. The lectures and discussion materials will be provided and handled by professors and staff in the USA, and the students would access these resources through the highly respected IIT India online system. Tuition for these online courses in the first year is available at a generous discount relative to the normal costs. Students who successfully complete 15-20 semester-hours of online coursework during this first year will be invited to then come to Chicago and complete the program there. Among the courses available in this second year will be laboratory courses, where students will have ample opportunities for hands-on inquiry into basic life sciences and for gaining experience with state-of-the-art laboratory instruments. Students will typically take 15-19 semester-hours of coursework in their second, Chicago-based year in the program and are then eligible for graduation. Qualified students will be invited to join the research laboratories of IIT faculty members and pursue thesis research there.
Students who successfully complete this two-year program will be prepared for employment as skilled technologists in companies that pursue biological research and development, or for continuing on to a PhD either at Illinois Tech or at other universities. Masters-degree graduates have been placed into leading research and development firms in the US and elsewhere, and have been accepted into PhD programs at leading universities.
The Biological Sciences Department at Illinois Tech has research foci in cell and molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology, and biophysics. Several faculty have strong ties to state-of-the-art national facilities, including the Advanced Photon Source in Argonne, Illinois. The department has close ties with IIT's Institute for Food Safety and Health (IFSH), and biology graduate students are invited to take coursework at IFSH and seek research relationships with IFSH faculty.
A faculty representative from IIT will visit in Delhi in early January 2018 to deliver a research seminar, discuss the program with prospective students, and admit students for fall 2018 into the program.
For further information on the program please contact:
Andrew J Howard, Interim Chair, Biological Sciences Department,
Illinois Institute of Technology
Robert A. Pritzker Science Center Room 178
3101 South Dearborn Street, Chicago Illinois 60616 USA
howard@iit.edu, office +1-312-567-5881