Graduate School
Its Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences ranked 26th for best Ph.D. program in the biological sciences. Additionally, several individual departments earn particularly heavy NIH funding, receiving several "Top Ten" rankings by the NIH in 2005:
- No. 1: Molecular & Cellular Biology; Molecular and Human Genetics; and Pediatrics
- No. 2: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- No. 8: Neurosciences
Overall, in 2005 BCM ranked 13th in terms of research funding from the National Institutes of Health, though this ranking system was discontinued after 2005 since it inaccurately assessed actual funding to institutions. The 2010 US News methodology which uses a different criteria for assessment therefore ranks the graduate school differently and does not assess the individual departments.
Thomson ScienceWatch, which quantifies citations-per-paper for work published between 2005–2009, ranked BCM 8th in Molecular Biology/Genetics, 16th in Neurobiology/Behavior, and 4th in Pediatrics. BCM was also ranked 5th on a list high impact institutions in the field of Neuroscience between 2001 and 2005.
BCM's research faculty includes 6 members of the National Academy of Sciences and 3 members of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
About 100 students join the graduate program each year, of which one-half were women and one-third were graduates from foreign schools. The average graduate student GRE score is above the 70th percentile.
Many departments of the graduate school collaborate with Rice University and other institutions within the Texas Medical Center. Currently, 489 graduate students are enrolled in one of the fourteen different PhD programs. These programs are:
- Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- Immunology
- Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Molecular and Human Genetics
- Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
- Molecular Virology & Microbiology
- Neuroscience
- Pharmacology
- Cardiovascular Sciences
- Cell and Molecular Biology
- Developmental biology
- Structural and Computational Biology & Molecular Biophysics
- Translational Biology & Molecular Medicine
- Clinical Scientist Training Program
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