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School of Life Sciences

Among deemed Universities, B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Vandalur, Chennai hosts one of the few broad “Life Sciences School” in the country, providing students, faculty, and staff with the opportunity to learn and perform research in a highly integrative and interactive setting. School of Life Sciences hosts over 19 active faculty research laboratories studying areas spanning biotechnology, biochemistry, microbiology, molecular biology, genetics, plant tissue culture, animal tissue culture, computational biology, bioprocess technology, nanotechnology, and food biotechnology etc.

School of Life Sciences is dedicated to achieving excellence in graduate training and undergraduate learning. Undergraduates benefit from having these world experts present the topics of their research passions in the classroom, exposing them to both the fundamental principles and the latest advancements or breakthroughs in biotechnology. Our undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum provides a rigorous introduction to biotechnology and other allied biosciences for students from many programs.

Graduate students pursue both M.Sc. and Ph.D. programmes enrolled either by individuals or by our integrated program. Our upper-level curriculum offers advanced training and specialization through coursework and formative research experiences. The school interacts heavily among the diverse disciplines represented within it, with other schools, and with programs at the many other partnership universities having MoU with our Institute. Besides the above, we are also offering many short-term certificate courses pertaining to life sciences, corporate hospitals, and industry.

Our prospective students admitted in the school will have an opportunity to interact with our overseas trained faculty members on cutting-edge research to further our understanding of the natural world and seek answers in fields across all of biology, from molecular and cell to animal, plant, and other allied areas.

Vision

To attain new heights in biotechnology education and research, shaping life sciences into a premier precision tool for the future for creation of wealth and ensuring social justice-specially for the welfare of the socially weaker group

Mission

  • The mission of the school of life sciences is to maximize the benefits of Biotechnology to the Institute, the nation and the globe
  • Being an excellent quality, comprehensive, multidisciplinary school that supports, coordinates, disseminates knowledge to the community
  • Apply biotechnology in the areas of social welfare and entrepreneurship