Graduate Students

Opportunities Abound in CNAS
Graduate students looking to pursue an advanced degree through the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences have an opportunity to work with and learn from some of the top minds in their fields.
Taking advantage
The CNAS Advantage, our unique, diverse learning environment that crosses disciplines, provides our graduate students the chance to tailor their learning experience, to explore ideas that you never dreamed of. With the CNAS Advantage, if what you want isn't happening in this department or this lab, it's happening down the hall or in the next building over. For example:
- Professor Tom Perring in Entomology is working on creating a chemical duplicate of a moth's sex pheromone and figuring out how to spray it most effectively on date palms
- Prof. John Baez in Mathematics is researching mind-bending topologies as two-tangle surfaces embedded in four-dimensional space.
- In Biology, Professor Daphne Fairbairn is examining why females are larger than the male in some species and smaller in others.
These are just a few of the hundreds of research programs waiting for you here at UCR.
Prospective graduate students, keep reading.
Current graduate students, click here.
The Next Step
To explore further, check out the links below to see our master's and doctoral degree offerings.
Some are department based; others are interdisciplinary. Follow links to the faculty members' own laboratory pages to see what specific work they are doing and how that fits into your interests. Don't hesitate to email a professor if you have questions.
When you're ready to move forward, you can start the application process through the Graduate Division Web page.
Graduate programs
- Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- Botany, Plant Science, Plant Biology
- Cell, Molecular & Developmental Biology
- Chemistry
- Entomology
- Environmental Sciences
- Environmental Toxicology
- Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology
- Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics
- Geological Sciences
- Mathematics
- Microbiology
- Neuroscience
- Physics
- Plant Pathology
- Soil & Water Science
- Statistics (M.S.)
- Applied Statistics (Ph.D.)


