Program is designed for students transferring to a 4-year school to complete their BS degree in Biology. It allows students to complete the first 2 years of the BS degree at the community college. Students explore physics, chemistry, and biology. Careers often require a BS degree or higher. Biology is the study of life and living beings, including their types, growth, structure, evolution, and where and how they live. Modern biology is very broad, and it has many smaller areas, including the study of animals, plants, cells, genes, and other life science topics.
This program introduces students to Biology, and it includes courses that are common to all four-year institutions in Colorado. Career paths for Biology degree holders include pre-medicine, pre-pharmacy, pre-veterinary, physical therapy, dentistry, and many scientific arenas.
The Associate of Science (AS) degree in Biology prepares students to complete the second half of a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Biology at a four-year university.
This is a Statewide Transfer Articulation Agreement in Biology for an Associate of Science Degree with Designation (DwD) from Morgan Community College for students planning to transfer to a Bachelor’s Degree from one of these Colorado Public Four-year institutions:
- Adams State University [B.S. Biology; Cellular and Molecular Biology, Organismal Biology, and Wildlife Biology emphases]
- Colorado Mesa University [B.S. Biological Sciences; Biology concentration]
- Colorado State University-Ft Collins [B.S. Biological Sciences]
- Colorado State University-Pueblo [B.S. Biology]
- Fort Lewis College [B.S. Biology; General Biology option]
- Metropolitan State University of Denver [B.S. Biology]
- University of Colorado Boulder [B.A. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology]
- University of Colorado-Colorado Springs [B.S. Biology]
- University of Colorado Denver [B.S. Biology]
- University of Northern Colorado [B.S. Biological Sciences; Cell and Molecular Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Pre-Health and Biomedical Sciences emphases]
- Western State Colorado University [B.A. Biology; Cell Biology/Pre-medicine, Environmental Biology and Ecology, General Biology, Pre-allied Health emphases]
Upon admittance to MCC, all students entering any one of the college’s degree programs or those entering ENG 1021, or any college-level math will be required to take the assessment/placement test.
Alternatively, if taken with the last 5 years, documentation of assessment/placement test scores from another two-year Colorado college or ACT® scores of reading 17, English 18, and math 23 will meet the assessment requirement.
- Minimum grade of "C" for each course
- Minimum cumulative MCC GPA of 2.0 to graduate
- Remedial/Developmental level courses do not apply.
- 15 credits in this program must be taken at MCC