Undergraduate students in the Biology Department have the option of pursuing a specific "Track" within the Biology major. These tracks recommend a set of courses that provide breadth and depth in a particular topic area or sub-discipline of Biology. The tracks offered are:

• General Biology
• Biochemistry
• Bioengineering
• Biophysics
• Cell, Developmental and Molecular Biology
• Computational Biology
• Human Biology
• Microbiology
• Neurobiology

Information and guidelines on the biotracks are available (pdf). Specific courses for each track are recommended and are generally additional to the major curriculum. Should you wish to substitute another course, your faculty advisor can approve a substitution. If you are in doubt as to the acceptability of a course, please contact biotracks [at] mit.edu.

This program is completely optional and is not required. Once you have completed a specific track, please return the BioTracks completion form to the Education Office by the end of term in which you plan to graduate. The Biology Department will provide an official letter of acknowledgement that a track has been completed.

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