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Toxicology focuses on detecting harmful environmental and medical exposures, understanding how they cause disease or dysfunction, developing preventive measures, performing safety evaluations, and determining safe exposure limits to safeguard public health. Its primary objective is to guarantee the safety of chemicals and products for both humans and ecosystems.
Our program equips graduates for leading roles in public health, offering career opportunities in research, government, pharmaceuticals, product safety, policy-making, and regulatory sectors. Alumni have secured roles as federal agency scientists, academic researchers, industry safety experts, risk assessment specialists, and various other impactful positions across diverse fields.
Applicants to the Toxicology PhD must have a minimum of one undergraduate course in each of the following: (1) general biology, (2) general chemistry, (3) organic chemistry, (4) general physics and (5) calculus)
The minimum acceptable TOEFL score required for admission is 560 paper-based, 220 computer-based (CBT) or 100 Internet-based (iBT).