Degree Programs

The Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology (BICB) graduate program is an interdisciplinary, all-University graduate program between the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and the University of Minnesota Rochester.

The program offers the Ph.D. and Master of Science (M.S. Plan A and Plan B) degrees and a Minor. The administrative home of the program is the University of Minnesota Rochester.

Its graduate faculty includes researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, the University of Minnesota Rochester, the Hormel Institute, the Mayo Clinic, and IBM. Students are in residence on either the Rochester or Twin Cities campus. The program is suitable for full-time and part-time students.

A Brief History

In December 2007 the BICB Academic Planning Committee consisting of faculty and administrators from the University of Minnesota Rochester, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, and the collaborating institutions (Mayo Clinic, IBM, and Hormel Institute) submitted a proposal to the University of Minnesota Graduate School to establish new M.S. and Ph.D. graduate programs in Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology. The program was approved by the University of Minnesota Board of Regents in July 2008. The BICB graduate program admitted its first students in Fall 2008.