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  • Animal Behavior Program
    310 Life Sciences Addition
    Davis, CA 95616
    Tel: (530) 752-2981
    Fax: (530) 752-8822
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  • 250 Mrak Hall
    One Shields Avenue
    Davis, CA 95616

    Phone: (530) 752-0650
    Fax: (530) 752-6222
Animal Behavior

Application Deadline

  • 2013 ADMISSION
  • Priority: Dec. 1
  • Final: Dec. 15

    2013 FELLOWSHIP
  • Prospective Student Fellowship: Dec. 1
  • Continuing Student Fellowship: Dec. 1

Degrees Offered

  • M.S. Plan II
  • Ph.D. Plan C

Designated Emphases

Admission Requirements

  • Three letters of recommendation
  • GRE scores
  • Official transcripts must be mailed to:

    CBS Dean's Office - ABGG
    UC Davis
    One Shields Ave.
    Davis, CA 95616

Degree Requirements

Students follow the degree requirements reflecting the year s/he was admitted or the most recent version below.

Administrative Bylaws

Exceptions

  • QE Exception: No outside member needed

Students gain advanced knowledge of animal science; ecology; biological anthropology; physiology; psychology; veterinary science; wildlife biology; and zoology, as well as the qualitative and quantitative skills necessary for professional research and teaching in the adaptive and evolutionary bases of animal behavior.

While an M.S. degree may be obtained while pursuing a Ph.D. degree, only Ph.D. applications will be accepted.

This program is an interdisciplinary Graduate Group.

For more information, visit the Animal Behavior website.

Contacts

Program Chair
Thomas P Coombs-Hahn Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior (530) 752-8531
Academic Advisers
A.P. Klimley
(Adviser: General) 		Animal Behavior - (530) 752-5830
Brenda McCowan
(Adviser: Admissions Only) 		Vm Population Hlth & Reprod 9/1/11 - 8/31/13
Marilyn Ramenofsky
(Adviser: Primary Contact) 		Animal Behavior 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (530) 752-3004
Cassandra Tucker
(Adviser: General) 		Animal Science 9/1/11 - 8/31/13 (530) 754-5750
Graduate Program Staff Coordinator
Erin McMurry College of Biological Sciences (530) 752-2981
Student Affairs Officer (SAO) in the Office of Graduate Studies
Laura Young Office of Graduate Studies (530) 752-2772