Marine Biology MSc @ UALG

The Marine Biology MSc programme aims to promote multidisciplinary advanced training in Marine Biology, providing skills for the analysis and understanding of marine biodiversity, from genes to ecosystems, their functioning and diversity. The program includes a strong component of participation in practical research, including laboratory and field work in different marine ecosystems. Applications include marine biological resource exploitation, conservation and biotechnology. Courses are taught in English.

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To apply click on the button below and then on the UALG site click on Admissions.

Applications

Schedule

For 1^st year students, please click on the schedule of your class or "turma".

Turma A Turma B Turma C Turma D

The class schedules for the 2^nd year are available in a Google Calendar. Please click on the button below and then scroll down until you find the schedule of MSc programme.

Schedule

IMPORTANT NOTE - If you have any electives of other MSc programmes you need to check their schedules and see whether they are compatible to your MBM schedule.

Academic Year

See the calendar for the current Academic Year. It contains important dates for the start and end of the semesters, exam periods, Christmas and Easter Breaks, etc.

Academic Year

Study Plan: a quick look

1^st year - 1^st Semester (30 ECTS)

Fisheries Biology and Ecology (6 ECTS)

Marine Polulation Biology (6 ECTS)

Aquatic Ecosystem Dynamics (6 ECTS)

Techniques in Molecular & Cellular Biology (6 ECTS)

Statistics Electives - students must choose one of these two modules:

Beginner's module: Introduction to Statistics (3 ECTS) + Experimental planning (3 ECTS); or
Advanced module: Basic Statistics in R (3 ECTS) + Experimental planning (3 ECTS)

IMPORTANT NOTE - Students should only choose the advanced module if they have strong math and statistics skills obtained at the BSc level.

1^st year - 2^nd Semester (30 ECTS)

Ecophysiology of Marine Plants (6 ECTS)

Marine Biogeography & Evolution (6 ECTS)

Advanced Methods in Biological Oceanography (6 ECTS)

Biogeochemical Processes & Global Changes (6 ECTS)

Electives 1.2 - students must choose one 6-ECTS elective unit or two 3-ECTS electives available in the 2nd semester.

IMPORTANT NOTE - To know which elective units are available to you click on ELECTIVES at the top of the page and see which ones are avilable in this curricular year. Some elective units are available in both years.