Top Five Reasons for Choosing Our Program

Our MS program in bioinformatics has 5 different concentration options, offering maximum flexibility in designing your training path.
You will have opportunities to select courses that are most interesting to you from a list of more than 100 courses.
You will have the opportunity to participate in a wide-spectrum of cutting-edge research projects in bioinformatics, ranging from molecular biology, biochemistry, to computer science and statistics.
You will have access to the $75 million, 186,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility provided by the new Institute for Genomic Biology .
You will benefit from the first-class high-performance computing capacity provided by our National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in developing and experimenting bioinformatics software.

Program Summary

Bioinformatics is an emerging interdsciplinary area spanning many different areas including biology, biochemistry, biophysics, computer science, statistics, and mathematics. There is an increasing demand for researchers and workforce in bioinformatics. The campus-wide MS Program in Bioinformatics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) offers outstanding training opportunities for students who would like to pursue a career in this exciting and growing field. We offer five options to accommodate training of students with different backgrounds, including Computer Science, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Animal Sciences, Crop Science, and Library and Information Science. The five options of the program share a few core courses, but otherwise provide maximum flexiblity for students to customize the training according to their background and career goals.

How to Apply?

Please follow the application instructions of individual programs:

The general application instructions are available here .

Questions?

Please contact ChengXiang Zhat at "czhai AT uiuc DOT edu".