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What are Graduate Fields?

Graduate education at Cornell is organized by Fields, which group faculty by common academic interest. Almost all Fields have an administrative home in a department. In some cases the faculty comprising the Field are virtually the same as those comprising the department. Generally each Field acts independently in graduate student admissions, e.g. recruiting, selecting, financing, and interviewing prospective students who visit Cornell, although in some cases Fields recruit together.

For more information visit the Graduate School Web site

Life Sciences Graduate Fields

Grouped by subject area — show alphabetical list instead

Applied Biology

Biomedical Sciences

Ecology, Evolution, and Integrative Biology

Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Physical, Chemical, and Computational Biology