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MDP in Bioinformatics

The International Master's Degree Programme in Bioinformatics (MBI) is a offered jointly by the University of Helsinki and Aalto University School of Science and Technology. The MBI programme educates bioinformatics professionals to research work and developmental tasks in biology and medicine. MBI offers a unique combination of bioinformatics, methodological sciences, biosciences and medicine.  An MBI student will learn the full spectrum of bioinformatics process from planning experiments to the data analysis and verification of hypotheses.

As a student of the MBI programme, you have an excellent chance to become familiar with real-life bioinformatics as you intern in a bioinformatics company or in a research group. Besides giving useful work experience and connections, as a rule, the internship period leads to finding a suitable topic for your MSc thesis. The MBI programme actively participates in arranging internship positions for students with and organising financial support for the internship period.

MBI graduates will be able to obtain positions in industrial and academic facilities such as biomedical companies, universities and research institutions. A bioinformatician often operates in a multidisciplinary environment with graduates from methodological sciences, biosciences as well as medical sciences. It is therefore important for a bioinformatician to be able to possess the multidisciplinary skills the MBI programme provides.

Read more on the MBI website.

More information on the application process through admissions@helsinki.fi.

Student interview Ping Chen.