范德堡大学（Vanderbilt University），又名范德比尔特大学，是位于美国田纳西州纳什维尔市的一所私立研究型大学。学校创立于1873年，是闻名全美的名牌大学，也是位于美国南方的少数的顶级名校之一（其他南方名校有Duke，Emory,Rice等)，以其出色的教育质量和强大的科研实力，享有“南方哈佛（Harvard of the South)”的美誉。学校名称来自于19世纪末的美国铁路和航运大王、海军准将考尼列斯 范德比尔特（Cornelius Vanderbilt），他捐赠一百万美元建立了这所学校，希望能够弥补南北战争给南方造成的创伤。
申请截止日期：1月15号
无申请费
录取要求：
Subject GRE tests are not required. There are no Graduate School minimums for GRE scores
Graduate School minimums for GPA are 3.0 overall undergraduate GPA and GPA in major
TOEFL scores of 570 for paper-version, 230 for computerized and 88 for internet-based tests.
虽然学校对GRE没有最低分的要求，但各根据对以往被录取学生的成绩统计，一般的申请者应该达到以下的成绩水平：
For perspective, typical mean test score ranges for students entering the Biological Sciences graduate program in the past few years have been verbal GREs in the 550-600 range, quantitative GREs in the 650-750 range and GPAs in the 3.2-3.7 range.
Biological Sciences Graduate Courses
*201 Introduction to Cell Biology
*205 Evolution
*210 Principles of Genetics
*220 Biochemistry I
*238 Ecology
226 Immunology
230 Biological Clocks
234 Microbial Population Biology
247 Molecular Evolution
252 Cellular Neurobiology
258 Vertebrate Physiology
265 Biochemistry lI
266 Advanced Molecular Genetics
270 Statistical Methods in Biology
272 Computational Genomics
273 Molecular Mechanisms of Environmental Toxins
274 Proteins
320 Graduate Seminar in Biological Sciences
325 Dynamic Organization of Nuclear Function
327 Developmental Biology of Microorganisms
328 Microbial Genetics
332 Seminar Biological Rhythms
336 Seminar in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
340 Developmental Biology
342 Advanced Developmental Biology: Vertebrate Organogenesis
349 Graduate Seminar in Molecular Biophysics
379 Non-candidate Dissertation Research
385 Advanced Reading in Biological Sciences
390 Special Topics and Advanced Techniques in Biological Sciences
399 Ph.D. Dissertation Research
* Normally not available for graduate credit in Biological Sciences
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