Undergraduate Program
About the Computational Biology Concentration
Students may pursue a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science. Students pursuing the ScB have the option of electing a concentration in Computational Biology with one of three focus areas:
- Computer Sciences
- Biological Sciences
- Applied Mathematics & Statistics
Both programs require a senior capstone experience that pair students and faculty in creative research collaborations.
Become a Computational Biology Concentrator
- Fill out the application on ASK.
- Review the Computational Biology concentration requirements and complete the Program Plan in ASK. Work with your advisor and the CCMB Academic Programs Coordinator to ensure you are meeting the requirements.
Alumni Outcomes
The following are some examples of positions currently held by our concentrator alumni:
- Assistant Professor @ Fred Hutch Cancer Center
- Associate Consultant @ IQVIA
- Computational Biologist @ Broad Institute
- Computational Biologist @ Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Computational Biologist @ NY Genome Center
- Deep Learning Software Engineer @ Intel Corporation
- Head of Bioinformatics @ Deep Origin
- PDRP Associate Scientists @ Genentech
- Postdoctoral Fellow @ Harvard Medical School
- Research Assistant @ Boston Children’s Hospital
- Research Software Engineer @ Meta
- Scientific Associate @ DE Shaw Research
- Senior Data Engineer @ Dataminr
- Senior Quantitative Scientist @ Flatiron Health
- Senior Software Engineer @ Instacart
- Senior Technical Product Manager @ Amazon
- Software Developer @ Truveta
- Software Engineer @ Google
- Software Engineer @ Microsoft
- Software Engineer @ SquareSpace
- Strategist @ Citadel
Medical Students @ Warren Alpert Medical School, Harvard Medical School, Weill Medical College of Cornell, Stony Brook Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, UMass Chan Medical School, UC San Diego School of Medicine
Ph.D. Students @ Brown University, Rice University, Harvard University, University of Chicago, Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University, UPenn, MIT, Princeton, Yale University
Students can learn more about alumni pathways on Focal Point.