Academics

Discovery begins with you.

Our courses are designed not just to learn about the sciences, but about yourself. Our small class sizes allow a partnership to develop between faculty and student so you can discover where your interests lie and how to translate them into a career path.

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Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is a multidisciplinary focus of research and scholarly activity. Faculty teach and advance interdisciplinary quantitative and computational data science for the life sciences, to provide experiential education in bioinformatics and to promote collaborative and reproducible research.

Degree Offerings

Undergraduate

Graduate

M.S. in bioinformatics

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Environmental Studies

Faculty in environmental studies are dedicated to geospatial and environmental research, education and service. Its mission is to conduct research, perform services and produce practitioners of evidence-based science as it relates to the interaction of life, earth and policy sciences. Curriculum is designed from the ground up to provide students with the combination of knowledge, skills and experiences that makes you competitive in the marketplace.

Minors

Minor in environmental studies

Certificates

Degree Offerings

Undergraduate

Graduate

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Center for Integrated Life Sciences Education

The mission of the Center for Integrated Life Sciences Education is to facilitate research and education collaborations for the life sciences community at VCU at large.

Degree Offerings

Graduate

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