Apply

Steps to application

• 1. Complete the FIU University Graduate School Admissions Application

  The FIU Graduate School Admissions Application must be completed online. Applicants must create a user account with login credentials. Once in the application, applicants must select “Graduate Certificate” and use the drop down menu to select the application for the certificate in Molecular and Biomedical Sciences.

  Each Applicant must include an email address in his or her application. All communications, including admissions decisions from the FIU University Graduate School Admissions Office, are sent to applicants via email. Applicants should ensure that their email settings allow communication from gradadm@fiu.edu.

  Applications do not have to be completed in one sitting. Changes may be made multiple times by signing into the user account. However, once you click on ‘submit’, the application will be delivered to the Graduate Admissions Office electronically and will no longer be accessible to the applicant. However, supplemental material may be uploaded.

  There is a $30 application fee, which may be paid with a major credit card (Visa, Master Card, Discover or American Express). Please note that applications are not processed until the application fee is paid.

  State residency documents are required whether or not you are a Florida resident. The documents must be uploaded with your Graduate School Admissions Application.

  A Student Identification Number or Panther ID is assigned upon receipt of the online application. It is sent via email along with the confirmation of receipt of application.

   

• 2. Submit Official Transcripts

  Official transcripts must be submitted for each college or university an applicant has attended. Transcripts must come directly from the issuing institution to FIU in sealed envelopes or via secure electronic contact to the University Graduate School. Applicants who have attended FIU or are currently attending FIU do not need to submit an FIU transcript.

  Official transcripts can be submitted electronically to gradadm@fiu.edu.

  Transcripts sent via mail or courier services should be sent to:
  
  Courier services:
  Modesto A. Maidique Campus, BT 201
  11200 S.W. 8th Street
  Miami, FL 33199
  
  Regular mail:
  FIU Graduate Admissions
  P.O. Box 659004
  Miami, FL 33265-9004

   

• 3. Complete the HWCOM Graduate Certificate Departmental Application

  After submitting the University Graduate School application, each applicant also must complete the HWCOM Graduate Certificate Departmental Application at biomedcert.medicine.fiu.edu.

  Each applicant must submit the departmental application using the “Submit My Application” button. There is no charge to submit the Departmental Application.

   

• 4. Letters of recommendation

  Each applicant must have a minimum of two letters of recommendations submitted. Both of these letters should be preferably from science faculty members. Letters of recommendation from friends or family members should not be submitted and will not be considered. Strong letters attesting to an applicant’s educational background, motivation, analytical skills, and promise as a health professional are considered important by the admissions committee. In the Departmental Application, each applicant will list the names of their recommenders with their respective emails. The system will generate an email to the recommenders with instructions as to how to submit a letter of recommendation on behalf of the applicant.