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Admission Requirements

Overview

Admission to the Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) Graduate Program is highly competitive. Successful applicants demonstrate strong academic performance, distinction in their areas of expertise, and significant potential for excellence in biomedical and health informatics.

We welcome applicants from a wide range of academic backgrounds. There is no specific required undergraduate major. However, all applicants must meet the minimum requirements listed below.

Academic Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree: A baccalaureate degree from an accredited U.S. institution OR an equivalent degree from a recognized college or university outside the United States.

Minimum GPA: A cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher (on a 4.0 scale) for the last 90 graded quarter credits or 60 graded semester credits.

Prior college-level coursework: Applicants must have completed formal, college-level coursework (verified by transcripts) in all the following areas:
- Advanced Mathematics: Calculus and above OR statistics/biostatistic
- Computer Programming: At least two courses
- Biology or Zoology

GRE or Other Test Scores

GRE scores (or GMAT, MCAT, or DAT scores) are required for most applicants

Applicants who already hold a doctoral degree (PhD, DDS, MD, EdD, JD, etc.) from a regionally accredited U.S. institution are not required to submit GRE or other test scores.

However, applicants with doctoral degrees from institutions outside the U.S. must still submit GRE scores (or GMAT, MCAT, or DAT scores).

Test scores must be from within the past five years.

English Language Proficiency

TOEFL scores are required for all international applicants unless they have earned a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree from a regionally accredited institution in one of the following countries:

Australia, the Bahamas, Canada, Ireland, Jamaica, New Zealand, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom, or the United States.

A minimum TOEFL iBT score of 102 is required to be exempt from Academic English Program (AEP) requirements.
TOEFL scores must be from a test taken within the past two years.
IELTS and Duolingo scores are not accepted.

Please note: The BIME Department requires the TOEFL exclusively. This policy is more restrictive than the UW Graduate School’s policy, which accepts other English proficiency tests.

For more information, visit the UW Graduate School’s English Language Proficiency Requirements.

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