• Master of Science in Computational Biology is in the midst of a major transition, as modern experimental methods are generating data at an unprecedented rate.
  • The Stony Brook Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics houses a strong research program in Computational Biology.
  • It is an on-campus program offered on a full-time basis.
  • The MS program is consisting of 30 credits of graduate coursework with no thesis.
  • The core courses required for the MS degree in computational biology are also taken by all PhD students in this track in preparation for the PhD qualifying examinations.
  • The required courses provide computational biology students with the fundamentals of both biology and applied mathematics, as well as in specific methods and applications in computational biology.