Agricultural and Biological Engineering, MSABE or MSENGR or MS

About the Program

In Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University, internationally known faculty and highly motivated graduate students collaborate to advance scientific and engineering frontiers. Graduate education is the foundation of our quest to extend knowledge frontiers, and we offer opportunities for fundamental and applied research applying engineering principles to agricultural and biological systems. Our innovative research creates products and processes that address national and global challenges in food, energy, water, health, and the environment.

Biological systems are at the heart of solutions to problems related to the environment, energy, health, food, and sustainability. Biological engineering graduate students use tools, either through computation and modeling or instrumentation and biological and biochemical methods, to create and manipulate cells and cellular materials for a variety of applications relating to human, plant, and animal systems. This emerging field is expected to rapidly advance and open opportunities in biomanufacturing, biosensors, microbiome, biomaterials, human therapeutics, tissue and organ regeneration, computational genomics, high-throughput sequencing algorithms, bioenergy and biofuel production, bioremediation, and biodefense.

Master’s students can pursue a thesis or non-thesis option. See below for each set of requirements.

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Program Requirements - Thesis

30 Credits Required

Program Requirements - Non-Thesis

30 Credits Required

Concentrations

Departmental concentrations:

• ​Biotechnology Innovation and Regulatory Science Concentration for Agricultural and Biological Engineering, MSABE or MS  (only for MSABE and MS)
• Data Science Concentration for Agricultural and Biological Engineering, MSABE or MS or PHD  (only for MSABE and MS)
• Fluid Power and Motion Control Concentration for Agriculture and Biological Engineering, MSABE or MSENGR or MS or PHD  

Interdisciplinary concentrations: 

• Computational Engineering Concentration (GR)  
• Computational Life Sciences Concentration (GR)  
• Interdisciplinary Ecological Sciences and Engineering Concentration (GR)  
• Purdue University Interdisciplinary Life Science (PULSe), MS or PHD  (only for MSABE and MS)
  •  Biotechnology

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