How difficult would is be to double major in bioinformatics and molecular and cell biology at say Berkeley, UCSD, UC Davis or UCLA?
To figure it out for each combination of majors at each campus:
a. Count the credits of courses needed for the first major.
b. Count the credits of non-overlapping courses needed for the second major.
c. Count the credits of non-overlapping courses needed for general education requirements.
d. Add the above together and see if it is lower (or not too much higher) than the number of credits to graduate.
e. (Optional) If the student will have AP or other credit on entry, subtract the number of credits of courses that may be skipped using the AP or other credit and see if the new total is lower (or not too much higher) than the number of credits to graduate.
Thanks so much UCBA. Interestingly I notice that at Berkeley bioinformatics is included in the agenda for MCB. I wonder at what level they are exposed to programming in order to analyze gene function etc in that track. ?
It does not look like a lot of bioinformatics is required in MCB, but there are apparently-relevant courses, some of which may be included as in-major electives for MCB (depending on which track one chooses). MCB majors should also have schedule space for free electives as well.
MCELLBI 137 Computer Simulation in Biology
BIO ENG 131 Introduction to Computational Molecular and Cell Biology
BIO ENG 143 Computational Methods in Biology
BIO ENG 144 Introduction to Protein Informatics
BIO ENG 144L Protein Informatics Laboratory
COMPSCI 176 Algorithms for Computational Biology
COMPSCI various
MATH 127 Mathematical and Computational Methods in Molecular Biology
STAT various