Undergraduate Studies

Advising

The advising system in the BMB, Biotc and Micrb majors is multi-tiered and thus provides back-up capacity. All students are assigned two advisors for the first 2 years of their undergraduate experience. The academic advisor provides assistance with the scheduling of courses, explanations of University and department policies and procedures, and with the selection of forms required to implement various actions. At the beginning of the junior year, the academic advisor transfers all advising responsibilities to the professional advisor who is assigned for the entire undergraduate experience. So, while serving as a back-up to the academic advisor in the first two years of academic study, the professional advisor assumes full responsibility for advising during the junior and senior years at a time when choosing electives, selecting graduate or professional schools and investigating career opportunities begins to take center stage in the advising process. Backing up both the academic and professional advisors is the Director for Undergraduate Programs and the full-time advisors in the Eberly College of Science’s Academic Advising Center. Thus, a student in the BMB Department never has fewer than 3 sources to turn to for advising assistance.