The Undergraduate Program in Computational Biology

Source: https://www.cmu.edu/cbd/education/undergraduate/index.html Parent: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/academics/undergraduate/programs

All of biology is computational

Biology and medicine are undergoing a data revolution, and at Carnegie Mellon University we’re training the next generation of computer scientists to tackle their big unsolved problems. Our undergraduate program in computational biology — unique to CMU — guides you to explore frontier problems in modern biomedical data science while providing the unparalleled computational education of the world-leading School of Computer Science.

At CMU, you apply to your "college" of interest. Computational biology is in the School of Computer Science (SCS), and so if you are interested in joining us as a computational biology major, then you should apply to SCS as your first-choice college and select computational biology as your program of interest. In your essay, make sure to make it clear why you are excited to study computational biology with us.