Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences

Graduate School
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<p>Dear all,</p>

<p>May I know what view do you people have regarding PhD in basic science and PhD in applied science? I am from Singapore and it seems that the government here is now cutting funding on basic science and moving on to industry (applied science) whereby they can reap the economic benefits. And Singapore being a very small country has foreign PhD students/postdocs/scientists from all over the world, its a sorta getting saturated.</p>

<p>If I do not proposition myself well for the next few years, I might find myself out of a job soon even when I have gotten a PhD, thus I searched online for some graduate programs and I found one which is interesting KGI Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences. May I know have anybody come across this school before? I don’t think Keck is well-known in Singapore.
Or should I just enrol in a high tier school and try my best to crank out a high impact journal and then move on to applied life science industry instead?</p>

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<p>KGI is among the oldest and most well established Professional Science Master’s programs. It is probably one of the top five in size and has it’s own career services office and staff, unlike other PSM programs. Some Amgen job descriptions require MBA or MBS (the degree at KGI is Master of Bioscience) as qualification.</p>

<p>It has an increasingly international board of trustees and advisory council that have regular interaction with students.</p>

<p>Disclosure: I am writing a guide to applying to PSM programs and used to work at KGI.</p>