BA/BS in Microbiological Sciences and Immunology

This biology bachelor's degree with a microbiology concentration lets students lean toward general or medical microbiology. Either route readies them for jobs in laboratory research, private industry, public health, clinical labs or government work, and for graduate study. Students must take physics and chemistry first. Incoming students should have taken three years of high school math and one year of chemistry, and prerequisite classes need a C- or higher. Students are advised to consult a biology advisor in the first semester and to keep meeting regularly with a departmental advisor, because elective offerings shift from year to year and the bulletin advises seeking guidance before signing up. The bulletin entry provides every requirement and the stated outcomes, which prospective students can use to compare this concentration with other biology options.