School of Health Sciences - Toxicology Graduate Plan of Study

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§ = mandatory course; † = mandatory course for those who work in a chemical laboratory

Students entering the Toxicology Graduate Program are expected to be proficient in physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology. Students can be accepted into the program without this pre-requisite knowledge but must immediately complete the relevant course work. A total of 90 residency hours is required for the Ph.D. degree. These residency hours may be any combination of course credit hours or research credit hours. Up to 30 hours may be credited for an M.S. degree upon recommendation of the Ph.D. graduate student's advisory committee and this may include all required coursework if the equivalent has recently been taken. No more than 6 credit hours of coursework at the 300 or 400 level is allowed to form part of the student's Ph.D. degree plan of study. The student's advisory committee may approve alternative coursework in a plan of study that will assist the student in their thesis research.

Graduate courses taken while registered as a graduate student at Purdue University may be considered for fulfilling the plan of study requirements only if the student has received grades of C or better. For courses at the 300 or 400 level taken as a graduate student or courses that represent either undergraduate or graduate excess credit or transfer credit, grades of B or better are required for fulfilling plan of study requirements.