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Biological processes manifest across different structural scales, from molecular interactions to entire organisms, and from groups of organisms to worldwide ecosystems. Integrative Biology adopts a comprehensive perspective, examining everything from genetic and protein-level interactions to observable traits, and extending to ecological communities and systems. By simultaneously investigating multiple biological scales across diverse spatial and temporal dimensions, Integrative Biology provides distinctive insights into core questions about how biological diversity evolves and persists. This includes studying organismal characteristics, ecological dynamics, and ecosystem functions. Our graduate program embodies this multifaceted methodology, encouraging students to blend field observations, laboratory experiments, comparative analyses, and theoretical frameworks while incorporating tools and principles from biology and related fields.
The minimum graduate admission requirements are:
a bachelor’s degree or recognized equivalent from an accredited institution;
a satisfactory scholastic average, usually a minimum grade-point average (GPA) of 3.0 (B) on a 4.0 scale; and
enough undergraduate training to do graduate work in your chosen field.
Applicants admitted to a doctoral program that requires a master’s degree to be earned at Berkeley as a prerequisite (even though the applicant already has a master’s degree from another institution in the same or a closely allied field of study) will be permitted to undertake the second master’s degree, despite the overlap in field.
TOEFL at least 90 for the Internet-based test (IBT), and 570 for the paper-based format (PBT).
overall Band score must be at least 7 on a 9-point scale for IELTS