Students anywhere can now study online to earn a
master of science in biotechnology or
bioscience regulatory affairs at Johns Hopkins through the
university's
Advanced Biotechnology Studies program.
The online degree programs, which received Maryland
Higher Education Commission
endorsement in October, will open for enrollment for the
spring 2008 semester. The degrees join the
university's master of science in bioinformatics to expand
the breadth and depth of Johns Hopkins'
fully online degree offerings.
"Now, biotechnology students from Bangalore to
Baltimore can study together and continue to
expand the global talent pool for disciplines such as
bioscience regulatory affairs, biotechnology and
bioinformatics," said Richard McCarty, chair of the
Advanced Biotechnology Studies program in the
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. "And our mature online
platform ensures that students receive a
convenient, flexible, yet rigorous education in the
biotechnology sciences."
Since January 2006, Johns Hopkins has offered its
fully online master of science in
bioinformatics, a joint program between the Krieger School
of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting
School of Engineering. This experience has allowed program
coordinators and professors in the ABS
program to develop and refine a comprehensive approach to
online education.
"The university is dedicated to a bold initiative of
augmenting our existing on-site degree
offerings with quality distance learning in a robust,
interactive and asynchronous online format," said
Sarah Steinberg, associate dean in the Krieger School. "The
success we've had with our bioinformatics
program reassured us that providing the biotechnology and
bioscience regulatory affairs degrees in
the online platform as well was the right thing to do. And
because the format is asynchronous,
students can keep pace with their peers regardless of where
they live."
For more information about Johns Hopkins' part-time
graduate degree available through the
Advanced Biotechnology Studies program, go to
biotechnology.jhu.edu.
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