All MBP students are required to successfully complete the following core courses:

Bioprocess Engineering I: Kinetics, Energetics, and Bioreactor Design (MBIOTECH 476-1)
Bioprocess Engineering II: Properties and Separation of Biologically Produced Molecules (MBIOTECH 476-2)
Biotechnology Laboratory (MBIOTECH 401)
Bioprocess Engineering Laboratory (MBIOTECH 402)
Microbial Biotechnology (MBIOTECH 421)
Biotechnology Applications of Immunology (MBIOTECH 422)
Biotechnology Seminars I (MBIOTECH 501)
Biotechnology Seminars II (MBIOTECH 502)
Biotechnology Seminars III (MBIOTECH 505)
Biotechnology Research (MBIOTECH 510 and 511)

The following required courses may be substituted with electives if equivalent courses were successfully completed during previous studies:

Bioprocessing Intro I: Balances and Kinetics for Bioprocessing (MBIOTECH 301)
Bioprocession Intro 2: Fluids and Mass Transfer for Bioprocessing (MBIOTECH 302)
Biochemistry (BIOL SCI 301) or Principles of Biochemistry (BIOL SCI 309)
Cell Biology (BIOL SCI 315)
Molecular Biology (BIOL SCI 390)

MBP students may choose from the following list of recommended elective courses after consultation with MBP faculty. These courses are offered at the schools of Engineering, Arts & Sciences, Medicine, and Management.

Biochemical sciences
Biomaterials
Biological/Biomedical Engineering
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Biophysical sciences
Cell Biology and Virology
Genetics and Genomics
Management Sciences (MBP students can take multiple management courses, but only one will count towards graduation requirements; the rest will be considered as an overload)
Molecular Biosciences
Immunobiology
Tissue Engineering
Statistics
Other courses

Students may take elective courses other than those listed above with consent from the MBP faculty; non-technical electives will not count toward the MBP graduation requirements.  The number of possible overloads will be decided on a case-by-case basis depending on students’ needs and performance.

Please note that most electives are offered only once in an academic year and that all IGP and MSCI courses (numbers beginning with IGP or MSCI) are offered at the Chicago campus of Northwestern University. For travel between Evanston and Chicago campus, please refer to Northwestern University Transportation services.