To be considered for admission, a first time graduate student or a student transferring from a graduate program at another university or from another graduate program at Mississippi Valley State University must fulfill the following general admissions requirements:
- a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
- a minimum undergraduate GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale
- an acceptable GRE general test score (verbal and quantitative combined)
- two lab based science courses, a statistics course, a calculus course, and a computer science course
- three letters of recommendations
- a statement of interest
- complete transcripts of undergraduate work or any previous, relevant graduate work
- submit TOFEL scores, if an international student
- a completed MVSU Graduate School application
An applicant may be granted regular or conditional/provisional admission to the Master of Science Program in Bioinformatics. The general guidelines of the MVSU Graduate School apply.