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Program Requirements for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Worcester Polytechnic Institute · Worcester, MA

A checklist is the list of requirements to complete this program and receive the award, as the college publishes it in its catalog. It is the same for everyone. It does not say what you have completed; that comes from applying your own record.

Program
Award
Minor
Catalog edition
2025-2026-undergraduate
Checklist type
degree-program
Description
Minor BB, MA, CS, and BCB, chosen from the course lists below (Minimum 5/3 Units) With at least 1/3 unit in each of BB, MA, and CS, and no more than 2/3 unit from any of these three areas. No more than 1 course at the 1000 level may be included from any one department. BB Courses Item # Title Units
Identifiers
IPEDS UNITID
168421
CourseShelf checklist
CK_168421_e57a0407
CollegeTransfer.Net
Institution Transfer Profile
Source
CourseShelf publish 61

Requirements to complete

Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.

Requirements

10 items
  1. As published: “Foundations of Cellular and Molecular Biotechnology 1/3”
    1/3
  2. As published: “Foundations of Ecology and Environmental Biology 1/3”
    1/3
  3. As published: “Principles of Ecology 1/3”
    1/3
  4. As published: “Foundations of Physiology 1/3”
    1/3
  5. As published: “Evolution: Pattern and Process 1/3”
    1/3
  6. As published: “Molecular Biology 1/3”
    1/3
  7. As published: “Lipids and Biomembrane Functions 1/3”
    1/3
  8. As published: “Nucleic Acids and Bioinformation 1/3”
    1/3

MA Courses

13 items
  1. As published: “Mathematical Modeling with Ordinary Differential Equations 1/3”
    1/3
  2. As published: “Applied Statistics for the Life Sciences 1/3”
    1/3
  3. As published: “Applied Statistics II 1/3”
    1/3
  4. As published: “Probability for Applications 1/3”
    1/3
  5. As published: “Loss Models II - Survival Models 1/3”
    1/3
  6. As published: “Partial Differential Equations 1/3”
    1/3
  7. As published: “Probability and Mathematical Statistics I 1/3”
    1/3

CS Courses

10 items
  1. As published: “Introduction to Programming for Non-Majors 1/3”
    1/3
  2. As published: “Accelerated Introduction to Program Design 1/3”
    1/3
  3. As published: “Object-Oriented Design Concepts 1/3”
    1/3
  4. As published: “Database Systems I 1/3”
    1/3
  5. As published: “Database Systems II 1/3”
  6. As published: “Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases 1/3”
    1/3
Source. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, catalog 2025-2026-undergraduate — https://wpi.cleancatalog.net/sites/default/files/undergraduate-catalog-202526-8-11-26.pdf. Captured page MA/168421-wpi.edu/pdf/168421-2025-2026-undergraduate-wpi.edu.pdf#page=105. Assembled from the institution's published catalog as captured; every record names its captured page and source URL. Assembled, not asserted.