Information on the admission process is available on the Office of Undergraduate Admissions website. Applications may be submitted via the Common Application.
Supporting documents not submitted online should be mailed to:
Office of Undergraduate Admissions
The George Washington University
800 21st Street NW, Suite 100
Washington, DC 20052
Contact for questions:
gwadm@gwu.edu or 202-994-6040
Program Director: K. Crandall
The following requirements must be fulfilled: 18 credits, including 12 credits in required courses and 6 credits in elective courses.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required | ||
| PUBH 3201 | Introduction to Bioinformatics | |
| PUBH 3202 | Introduction to Genomics | |
| PUBH 4201 | Practical Computing | |
| or CSCI 1012 | Introduction to Programming with Python | |
| or CSCI 1121 | Introduction to C Programming | |
| or CSCI 1131 | Introduction to Programming with C | |
| PUBH 4202 | Bioinformatics Algorithms and Data Structures | |
| or CSCI 1112 | Algorithms and Data Structures | |
| Electives | ||
| 6 credits in elective courses selected from the following: | ||
| ANTH 2406 | Human Evolutionary Genetics | |
| BISC 2207 | Genetics | |
| BISC 3209 | Molecular Biology | |
| BME 2820 | Biomedical Engineering Programming I | |
| BME 2825 | Biomedical Engineering Programming II | |
| BME 3820 | Engineering Analysis of Neural, Muscular, and Cardiovascular Physiology | |
| CHEM 3165 | Biochemistry I | |
| CHEM 3166 | Biochemistry II | |
| CSCI 3212 | Algorithms | |
| CSCI 4364 | Machine Learning | |
| CSCI 4572 | Computational Biology | |
| EMSE 3760 | Discrete Systems Simulation | |
| EMSE 3850 | Quantitative Models in Systems Engineering | |
| EMSE 4765 | Data Analysis for Engineers and Scientists | |
| MATH 3359 | Introduction to Mathematical Modeling | |
| MATH 3553 | Introduction to Numerical Analysis | |
| MATH 3613 | Introduction to Combinatorics | |
| MATH 3730 | Computability Theory | |
| MATH 3740 | Computational Complexity | |
| PUBH 3131 | Epidemiology | |
| PUBH 3151 | Current Issues in Bioethics | |
| or PUBH 3151W | Current Issues in Bioethics | |
| PUBH 4199 | Independent Study | |
| PUBH 6859 | High Performance and Cloud Computing | |
| PUBH 8885 | Computational Biology | |
| STAT 2183W | Intermediate Statistical Laboratory: Statistical Computing Packages | |
| STAT 3119 | Design and Analysis of Experiments | |
| STAT 3157 | Introduction to Mathematical Statistics I | |
| STAT 3187 | Introduction to Sampling | |
| STAT 4188 | Nonparametric Statistics Inference | |
| STAT 4189 | Mathematical Probability and Applications I | |