Graduate Program: Biological Systems Engineering

Mission

Our program offers a wide variety of opportunities for research at the interface of engineering, biology, and agriculture and has a long tradition and respected reputation for research in biological systems engineering; we are consistently ranked as one of the top five departments in the United States by U.S. News and World Report.

With approximately 40 graduate students and 25 faculty members, we can offer you a high level of personal attention. Our faculty members bring in approximately $5 million in research funding per year, offering you opportunities to conduct research in areas such as biotechnical engineering; energy systems; food engineering; biosensors; environmental, ecological, and resource engineering; machine systems; and aquaculture.

Our students take classes in the College of Engineering, Division of Biological Sciences and the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. UC Davis’ programs in these areas are some of the strongest in the country. Most of the courses taught at UC Davis are described in the General Catalog, which is available at the UC Davis home page: http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/UCDWebCatalog/.

Davis is centrally located, with easy access to the San Francisco Bay Area, Napa Valley, the Northern California coast, the Sierra Nevada and Lake Tahoe. The campus is home to both the Mondavi Performing Arts Center, with its outstanding calendar of events, and the Arts and Recreation Center (ARC), so UC Davis has all your interests covered, whether they are intellectual, cultural or physical.

To meet your specific needs, we also offer four different degree options: M.S., Master of Engineering, Ph.D. and Doctor of Engineering. If you’re interested in admission, the university strongly encourages you to apply online at: http://www.gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/b4apply.htm.