Informatics Educational Institutions & Programs

Virginia Commonwealth University

Type	Public
Established	1838 (1838)
President	Michael Rao
Provost	Gail Hackett
Rector	William M. Ginther
Location	Richmond, Virginia, United States
Campus	Urban
Colors	Black and gold
Nickname	Rams
Website	vcu.edu
LinkedIn	https://www.linkedin.com/edu/school?id=19608

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is a public research university located in Richmond, Virginia, United States. The university is organized into 13 schools and one college offering 62 bachelor’s, 72 master’s, 41 doctoral, 47 post-baccalaureate and post-master’s certificate, and three first-professional degree programs.^[1] VCU is classified as a research university with very high research activity by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.^[2] The university enrolled more than 31,000 students, and it ranked 164 among all national universities and 87 among "Top Public Schools" according to U.S. News & World Report's 2016 rankings.^[3]

Informatics programs

Bioinformatics

The following bioinformatics-related options exist for potential students:

B.S. in Bioinformatics (with three concentrations)

120 credit hours; available in biological/genomic, computational, and quantitative/statistical tracks

Available online? No

Program URL: https://cbds.vcu.edu/academics/undergraduate/

Accelerated B.S. to M.S in Bioinformatics

132 credit hours (?); "...permits selected students majoring in bioinformatics to earn the bachelor of science and master’s degrees in a minimum of five years by taking certain graduate level courses during the senior year of their undergraduate program."

Available online? No

Program URL: https://cbds.vcu.edu/academics/graduate/

M.S. in Bioinformatics

34 credit hours; available with both a thesis and non-thesis option, with non-thesis version leading to professional science master's.

Available online? No

Program URL: https://cbds.vcu.edu/academics/graduate/

Ph.D. in Integrative Life Sciences, Bioinformatics and Genomics Concentration

See the degree requirements for more information.

Available online? No

Program URL: https://clse.vcu.edu/ils-doctoral-program/about/

Additional external links

• Center for Biological Data Science

References