Doctor of Philosophy in Pathobiology

The Pathobiology Graduate Program is an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary program with a mission to provide a broad based graduate education to students seeking a PhD degree in the areas of infectious and non-infectious diseases of animals, food safety, security, and policy, and production animal medicine and management. The research activities of the graduate faculty, primarily in the Departments of Diagnostic MedicinePathobiology and Clinical Sciences are in specialized areas of Infectious Diseases, including Zoonotic Diseases and Transboundary Diseases, Bacteriology, Epidemiology, Immunology, Parasitology, Pharmacology, Virology, Companion Animal Health, Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Food Animal Health and Management, Food Safety and Security, and Translational Medicine. The program is also served by faculty from other departments or units at K-State, which include Anatomy and Physiology, Animal Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Biology, Biosecurity Research Institute, Entomology, and the Olathe campus. The faculty in the Pathobiology Program have national and international reputations in areas of transboundary diseases, swine viral diseases, bacterial diseases, vaccine development, vector-borne diseases, parasitic diseases, epidemiology, and food safety and security.

Minimum admission requirements include a cumulative grade point average of 3.0/4.0 in the baccalaureate degree, DVM/VMD or in the M.S degree.All applicants are required to take the General Graduate Record Examination (GRE) and submit the scores with the application.Official transcripts for each university in which the student enrolled in BS or MS training should be uploaded in CollegeNet.Three letters of recommendationiBT TOEFL (internet based) scores must have a minimum total score of 79 with no part score below 20 on the reading, listening, or writing sections