Overview
Key facts
Course curriculum for the Population Biology program at the University of California, Davis, often works near the interface between ecology, the study of interactions between organisms and their environment, and evolutionary biology, which aims to understand how populations and species evolve. Areas of research are often directed toward basic science, but also often addresses applied problems such as overcrowding, invasive species, and extinction. Students gain advanced knowledge of population growth, structure and dynamics, population interactions, community ecology, food webs, biogeography, behavioral and physiological ecology, life history strategies, systematics, evolution, population and quantitative genetics, and genomics.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Principles of Population Biology
- Mathematical Methods in Population Biology
- Ecology and Evolution
- Evolutionary Biology
- Ecology Research
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 12 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Credits
Delivered
Disciplines
Biology Bioinformatics & Biostatistics Genetics View 1272 other Masters in Biology in United StatesAcademic requirements
English requirements
Other requirements
General requirements
- The application for admission is exclusively available through the online application system
- Application Fee
- CV
- Fellowship Application
- Letters of Recommendation
- Personal History and Statement of Purpose
- Transcripts
Tuition Fee
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International
11700 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 11700 USD per year during 12 months. -
National
11700 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 11700 USD per year during 12 months.
Living costs for Davis
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