Degree Requirements
To fulfill Ph.D. requirements, Pathobiology students must complete required courses, pass the parts of the preliminary examination, and write and successfully defend an original laboratory research-based thesis. Students in the Pathobiology Graduate Program are required to take 3 core courses, 2 focus area courses, and a Topic in Pathobiology course. Additional coursework may be required in some cases, and elective courses may be taken. Also, all entering PhD students in Division of Biology and Medicine are required to take and pass Responsible Conduct in Research Training, during the Fall of their first year.
Students who enter the Ph.D. with graduate level course work completed after obtaining the bachelor’s degree may be able to transfer tuition credits to Brown. Typically, students have to identify a laboratory to complete their thesis work no later than the end of the summer that follows the end of their first academic year in the program. All course work should be completed by the second year. A variety of workshops, journal clubs, colloquia, and seminars within the Program, the Division, and the University provide complementary intellectual enrichment and career development opportunities.