生物科学系提供的研究生课程将获得生物科学硕士学位（MS）和生物科学哲学博士学位（Ph.D.）。两种课程的设计目的都是为了使学者为在学术界，政府和企业中从事研究事业做好准备，并提高高中，大学和大学教师的能力水平。该系在理学硕士课程中提供论文和非论文两种选择。在学位论文选项下，硕士学位课程至少需要36个学期小时的认可课程；在非学位论文选项下，最少需要39个学期小时。选择非论文选项的学生必须在不超过其完成课程的学期之前通过全面考试（通过分数70％或以上）。强烈建议有兴趣从事学术界，政府或行业研究工作的学生选择论
The M.S. and Ph.D. programs in biology are geared to the needs and interests of each individual student. Graduate students may be admitted to work with a specific faculty sponsor, or may choose to rotate through appropriate laboratories to identify a faculty sponsor. Upon arrival, incoming graduate students take a diagnostic examination in four major subject areas. Based on the results, faculty work with each student to map out the first year's course work. During that first year, graduate students interact with faculty and other students to further define their areas of interest. Four hours of biology graduate colloquia and 26 additional hours of course work and thesis research. In addition to formal course work, all students must spend at least one semester as a teaching fellow. The research of Biology faculty is grouped into two clusters: Cell and Molecular Biology and Ecology-Evolution-Animal Behavior. Students will have the opportunity to mention from the outset of the application process whose research they are interested in.