- University of Calgary offers a Bachelor of Health Science in Biomedical Sciences with a duration of 4 years.
- This program is offered on a full-time basis and delivered on-campus.
- This program is course-based.
- Biomedical Sciences involves ground breaking scientific research in areas such as cancer biology, neuroscience, gastrointestinal physiology, cardiovascular sciences, biochemistry, genetics and infectious diseases.
- During the course of the studies, much of the learning will occur while actively working on problems in class, during tutorials, in the laboratory and through summer research studentships.
- Some of the courses in this program are:
- Developing Health Research Literacy I
- Interdisciplinary Research Approaches
- Mechanics
- University Calculus I
- Energy Flow in Biological Systems
- This degree can also be used as a stepping-stone to graduate studies or another professional degree such as law, medicine, veterinary medicine, or architecture.
- The University of Calgary ranked in 6th place in Canada by Research Infosource in 2018.
- The University offers small class sizes that provide close research interaction with their supervision.
- The Faculty of the department have received global recognition by winning awards like federal awards, Provincial awards, Indigenous awards, etc.
- The average salary goes upto 68,500 USD.