Students can also earn an additional ASBMB certification to their B.S. Biochemistry, ASBMB-accredited degree by passing an ASBMB certification exam during their final year of study. Students that take this course of study, pass the ASBMB-certification exam with distinction, have a minimum 3.4 GPA and meet some other requirements are eligible to be inducted into the ASBMB National Honor Society (see the website for full details, http://asbmb.org/honorsociety/).
Students can take some additional courses and substitute some others in order to earn a degree that is both ASBMB-accredited and ACS-certified. The following additional course would be required: Intermediate Inorganic Chemistry (
CHE 245) with Intermediate Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory (
CHE 245L), Advanced Instrumental Chemistry (
CHE 430) with Advanced Instrumental Chemistry Laboratory (
CHE 430L), and Calculus II (
MAT 261). The following substitutions would need to be made: Physical Chemistry I (
CHE 352) with Physical Chemistry I Laboratory (
CHE 353L) and Physical Chemistry II (
CHE 354) with Physical Chemistry II Laboratory (
CHE 355L) would replace Applied Physical Chemistry (
CHE 305); General Physics with Calculus I (
PHY 205) with General Physics with Calculus I Laboratory (
PHY 205L) and General Physics with Calculus II (
PHY 206) with General Physics with Calculus II Laboratory (
PHY 206L) would replace the non-calculus based physics course series (
PHY 200,
PHY 200L,
PHY 206,
PHY 206L). Total credit hours for this ASBMB-accredited and ACS-certified option is 91 hours.