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Concentration: Personal Care Science - New Brunswick

Overview:
The goal of the MBS Personal Care Science concentration is to educate students in the essential skills and tools relevant to the Personal Care (Cosmetic), Consumer Health Products, Pharmaceutical and Speciality Chemical industries. Students will be taught the fundamentals and applications of personal care chemistry, food science, process engineering and science and will receive training in finance and accounting, marketing, communication and leadership, management of science and technology, ethics and entrepreneurship.
The objectives of this concentration are to:
1. Learn the fundamentals of cosmetic chemistry including: raw materials, bioactives, emulsions, hair biology and function, skin biology and function
2. Gain an appreciation of national and international regulatory guidelines, testing of raw and finished goods, and marketing aspects of personal care products

Employment Opportunities:
Students with an MBS in Personal Care Science can find work in many personal care product companies as well as labs.

Program Requirements:

• For the MBS in Personal Care Science you are required to do 24 credits in Science Curriculum and 19 Credits in Business Curriculum. For Business Curriculum click here. For Science Curriculum see below.
• 15 credits of Personal Care Science core courses
• 9 credits of Science elective courses (to be selected from established graduate courses – listing appended).
• Maintaining an overall cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0.
• Maintaining a grade point average of at least 3.0 in the core courses.
• Students receiving more than three (3) grades below B will be recommended for dismissal to the Graduate School.
• Take Intellectual Property Course as part of the business curriculum (mandatory).
• Take Project management as a business elective (recommended).

Core Courses  

The following 3 courses are mandatory:

• 16:137:570 Fundamentals of Personal Care Science (3)
  
• 16:400:612 (F) Introduction to Colloid and Interface Science (3) or, 16:635:529 (S) Introduction to the Fundamentals of Applied Colloid and Surface Chemistry (3)
• 16:400:515. (F) Principles of Food Process Engineering I (3) or, 16:155:541 Pharmaceutical Materials Engineering (3)

Choose 2 courses from the following 5 (*the remaining courses can be chosen as electives):

• 16:682:501 Microbial Life (3)
• 16:137:510 Drug Development from Concept to Market (3)
• 16:720:523 Dermaceutics (3)
• 11:115:422 Biochemical Mechanisms of Toxicology (3)
• 16:160:509 Organic Chemistry of High Polymers (3)
• 16:137:600 Introduction to Regulatory Affairs (3)
  

The following course is to be taken as part of the business curriculum (mandatory).
16:137:501 Fundamentals of Intellectual Property (3)

Electives (click here)

Admission Requirements:
Admission to the Graduate Program in Personal Care Science is based on careful evaluation of scholastic record, letters of recommendation, and performance on the Graduate Record Examinations. Applicants must demonstrate proficiency in English unless the official language of their country is English – TOEFL score of at least 550 (paper test) or 213 (computer based test). International students (and students from Puerto Rico) must also submit scores from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).
Students whose undergraduate degrees are in a field other than chemistry must take undergraduate core organic chemistry (307/308 and 311 or equivalent) and are recommended to take macromolecular courses during their first year with approval from the Director of Graduate Program. An undergraduate degree in Science, Engineering or Pharmacy, with a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale is expected.

Course Descriptions  (click here)

Concentration Coordinator:

Dr. Sangya Varma
sangya@rci.rutgers.edu

Related Concentrations: Drug Discovery & Development, Biomedical Engineering, Food Science, Chemistry