Study Bioinformatics MSc / PGDip / PGCert at University of Birmingham in the UK, School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine

About this course

About this course
- Overview
- Department
Study options
Entry requirements
- International

What will I learn?

The future of healthcare is bioinformatics. Work with the world’s most advanced biological and clinical datasets and start your career path in omics-enabled biosciences. Our course will place you at the forefront of the recent genomics and bioinformatics revolution as you’ll develop sought-after skills in statistics, computer programming and molecular biology. Help shape the future of one of the fastest-growing fields in industry and academia. Biology is now driven be data and computational methods are essential for uniting, scrutinising, and comprehending both fresh and reused biological data. The approaches you'll learn will enable you to extract valuable insights and achieve scientific breakthroughs from the vast amount and variety of available data. You’ll learn to analyse different types of omics data, including next generation sequencing, mass spectrometry, emerging single molecule techniques, genome engineering, imaging and integrative analysis toolsets.

Which department am I in?

School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine

Study options

Full Time (1 Year)

Tuition fees

£33,660.00 (US$ 43,470) per year

This is a provisional fee yet to be approved

*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution

Start date

September 2027

Venue

University of Birmingham

Edgbaston Birmingham,

Birmingham,

West Midlands,

B15 2TT, Central England, United Kingdom

Entry requirements

For international students

You should have, or expect to obtain, a 2:1 Honours degree in Biology, Mathematics, Computer Science or a related subject. You should have, or expect to get, a 2:1 honours degree or higher in a field related to quantitative knowledge from sciences, technology, engineering, or medical fields. Common degrees include Biology, Biomedical Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Chemistry, and Pharmacology. Other relevant subjects are Biochemistry, Genetics, Genomics, Medicine, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Biostatistics, Pharmacy, Biotechnology, Bioengineering, Systems Biology, Botany, Ecology, Zoology, and Marine Biology.

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.