Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences

Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences (short KGI) is a specialized graduate school in Claremont, California. Founded in 1997, Keck Graduate Institute is the only American graduate institution devoted solely to bioscience education and discovery. KGI is the seventh and newest member of the Claremont Colleges consortium.

Today the most exciting work in the life sciences, engineering, and management is happening in the biosciences industry. To translate new discoveries into applications that improve the human condition, industry demands a new kind of professional - scientifically proficient and managerially savvy.

Programs

KGI educates future leaders of the bioscience industry through distinctive Professional Science Master's and PhD programs offering integrated life science/engineering/business curriculums and focusing on industry projects and collaborations. Degree programs include our Master of Bioscience (MBS) and Postdoctoral Professional Masters in Bioscience Management (PPM). We also offer the Postbaccalaureate Premedical Certificate Program (PPC) for aspiring medical school students.

KGI’s Master of Bioscience (MBS) program integrates systems biology, computational biology, and bioengineering with management, finance and bioethics. KGI graduates work at the intersection of bioscience and business to take discoveries from the lab to the marketplace. KGI's MBS program was the first to integrate science, engineering and business into the curriculum and remains unique in this degree of integration.

Christina Lai (MBS '11)

"The assumption that you need a PhD to contribute to science, I believe, is a failed assumption and one that KGI is continuing to challenge. KGI was a lot of what I didn’t expect … knowledge into the whole industry, integrated and collaborative, comprehensive, a lot of stuff that I couldn’t have gotten on my own or within a specialized PhD track. KGI is the perfect area for people who want to be involved in the science but don’t want to be at a bench or in medicine."

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