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**Review** Graduate Catalog 2025-2026
**Review** Graduate Catalog 2025-2026 > Graduate Programs > Doctoral Degrees > Biological Education Ph.D.
College of Natural and Health Sciences
General Doctoral Degree Admission Requirements
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Director: Mitchell E. McGlaughlin, Ph.D. Location: Ross Hall 2480 Telephone: 970-351-2921 Website: www.unco.edu/nhs/biology/
This program is designed for graduate students interested in specializing in either biology education or an area of the biological sciences that matches current faculty interests and expertise. Areas of emphasis in this program prepare students to conduct and supervise biological or pedagogical research and to instruct biology courses at the college or university level.
Students are strongly encouraged to review the research areas of the Biology faculty on our website and contact faculty in whose research they are interested. The student must meet with a graduate advisor and graduate committee no later than the second semester of the program to determine a course of study.
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BIO 792: Take 4 hours
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1-10
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1- 2
BIO 591: Limit 2 hours
BIO 622: Limit 6 hours
NOTE: A student can count a maximum of 8 credits from the following list of double numbered courses: BIO 530, BIO 533, BIO 534, BIO 535, BIO 537, BIO 538, BIO 554, BIO 562, BIO 566, BIO 576
NOTE: Students can count no more than 9 credits of non-BIO content elective courses. Courses not on the list above may be used to fulfill this category with advisor approval.
BIO 691: Take 4 hours
1-12
BIO 797: Take 4 credits
BIO 799: Take 12 credits
Program Notes
Students must complete a minimum of 50 semester hours in biological science of combined undergraduate and graduate courses.
SRM 502 and SRM 700 may be waived depending on course background of the student.
Students in this program are exempt from the 94 graduate credit hours to Ph.D. minimum policy.
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