Our Doctoral Programs
The BRET Office handles all aspects of the recruitment, application and admissions processes for graduate programs in the biomedical sciences. The application cycle for admission into our programs in the 2023 fall term is currently CLOSED.
Vanderbilt is home to Biomedical Ph.D. programs ranging from Biostatistics to Neuroscience to Epidemiology. While admission into many of our Biomedical PhD programs is through the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program (IGP) and Quantitative and Chemical Biology Program (QCB), we also have many programs for which you can apply directly. Please see the chart below for information on admission procedures and the appropriate page for more program-specific information.
Program | IGP | QCB | MSTP | Direct Recruitment |
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Biochemistry | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
Biological Sciences | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Biomedical Informatics | ![]() | ![]() |
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Biomedical Engineering | ![]() | ![]() |
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Biostatistics | ![]() | ![]() |
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Cancer Biology | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
Cell & Developmental Biology | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
Chemical & Physical Biology | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
Chemistry | ![]() | ![]() |
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Epidemiology | ![]() | ![]() |
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Hearing & Speech Sciences | ![]() |
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Health Policy & Health Services Research | ![]() |
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Human Genetics | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
Microbe-Host Interactions | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
Molecular Pathology & Immunology | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
Molecular Physiology & Biophysics | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
Neuroscience | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Pharmacology | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |