生命科学学院（SoLS）的生物科学哲学博士（Ph.D.）包含四个部门研究重点，它们反映了现代生物学的范围：生态与进化生物学（EEB），综合生理学（IP），细胞和分子生物学（CMB）和微生物学（MB）。该学位是研究密集型课程，旨在为学生做好学术，政府和工业界的职业准备，使其成为所选领域的专家。学生必须在其研究部分的核心和认可课程列表中至少完成60个学分。他们必须从事新颖而激动人心的独立研究，并在其论文中为其选定的领域做出重要贡献的高潮。因此，预计他们的论文工作将在同行评审期刊上发表，并且该学生被列为第一作者
The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Biological Sciences within the School of Life Sciences (SoLS) consists of four sectional research concentrations that reflect the scope of modern biology: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB), Integrative Physiology (IP), Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB), and Microbiology (MB). The degree is research intensive and designed to prepare students for careers in academia, government, and industry as engaged scholars who are experts in their chosen field. Students must complete a minimum of 60 credit hours from a list of core and approved courses within their research section. They must engage in independent research that is novel and exciting culminating with a dissertation that makes an important contribution to their chosen field. As such, it is expected that their dissertation work will be published in peer reviewed journals with the student listed as first author. Successful students are also trained and expected to develop as effective teachers and educators, and each student must serve as a teaching assistant for two semesters as part of the degree program.