Overview

About the program

The intellectual landscape of Biology is in a state of upheaval: Our field has focused for To the Systems Biologist, the living world is built of interacting sets of complex systems, crafted by natural selection to carry out defined tasks. Understanding such a world requires addressing questions with an engineering flavor, such as "Why is a system designed the way it is?" "How does it function robustly?" and "What can the system be altered to do?"

To tackle such questions, one needs to know not just mechanisms ("how does it work?") but also purposes ("what is its job?" "why was it advantageous to build it that way?"). Yet relationships between how complex systems are built and what they were designed to do are usually far from intuitive; considerable computational effort and mathematical skill are often needed to make the necessary connections.

Such a strong dependence on ideas and approaches outside the discipline of Biology explains why Systems Biology, in our view, is not just a trend within biology, but a truly hybrid discipline, an amalgam of molecular biology, evolutionary biology, engineering, mathematics and computer science. This Mathematical, Computational and Systems Biology program is offered at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Developmental and Cell Biology
Biophysics of Molecules and Molecular Machines
Systems Cell and Developmental Biology
Mathematical and Computational Biology
Dynamic Systems in Biology and Medicine
Computational Systems Biology

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 60 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-23 00:00:00
- Apply before 2025-12-10 00:00:00

Language

English

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Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Irvine, United States

Disciplines

Mathematics Biology View 143 other PhDs in Mathematics in United States

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Academic requirements

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General requirements

bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) from a recognized academic institution with degree standards equivalent to those of the University of California
letters of recommendation (3)
academic statement of purpose
personal history statement
transcripts

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Tuition Fee

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International

27366 USD/year

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National

27366 USD/year

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In-State

12264 USD/year

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Based on the tuition of 12264 USD per year during 60 months.

Living costs for Irvine

1560 - 2585 USD /month

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