- UAB University Master's Degree
- Credits: 60 ECTS
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Beginning of the pre-enrolment period 10/01/2025
See the calendar - Pre-registration period: Open
- Places: 25 places
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Price: €27.67 per credit (EU citizens and non-EU holding an EU residence permit). 2024/25 Academic year.
€75 per credit (non-EU citizens who do not hold an EU residence permit). 2025/26 Academic year. - Language: English (100%)
- Mode: Classroom-based learning
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Teaching centre:
Faculty of Biosciences
The study plan for this master's degree offers several advantages to students. Among the strengths of this new version of the master's degree are:
- New modules designed taking into account the first batch of new students from the university's bachelor's degree programmes
- Elimination of itineraries and specialisations
- Removal of overlaps with modules of other master's degrees
- Lectures in English
- Theory concentrated in the first semester, which means that the second semester is totally free for work on the research paper. This allows study periods that can be spent outside the UAB's area of influence.
Career options
Professional career options include:
- Hospital genetics
- Clinical genetics
- Evolutionary medicine (a new evolving speciality)
- Pre- and postnatal (including preimplantational) genetic diagnosis centres
- Genetic service firms (sequentiation, microarrays, genome analysis, bioinformatics)
- Science equipment firms
- Genetic consultancy
- Science police
- Quality control for the food industry (detecting transgenics, etc.)?
- Genetic improvement of animals or plants
- Pharmaceutical industry and related industries (evaluation of genotoxicity, etc.)
- Biotechnology industry (production of transgenics, recombinant proteins, specific gene therapy vectors, etc.)
- Environmental / ecological diversity / conservation institutions and consultants (zoos, natural parks, etc.)
- conservation and reproduction of animal and plant species
- Writing up and translating specialised scientific articles (newpapers, publishing houses, etc.).
- Working in official and private research centres.
- Teaching (universitary and secondary school level).
Work placements
This master's degree has 1 compulsory work placement.
The experience accumulated in organising this master's degree allows us to offer a wide variety of centres, where students can choose the subject areas that best fit in with their chosen career. It is significant that in metropolitan Barcelona there is considerable genetics-related research and professional activity, so that students can opt to carry out their placement with a firm, a university department, or one of the many research institutes working in agriculture, veterinary science or public health.
The work placement will take place during the second term. This distribution is meant to facilitate students' work, avoiding the need to combine attendance at the placement centre with classes for the theory modules at the Faculty of Biosciences, on the campus itself.
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