Scientists who pursue graduate education in North Carolina have a wide variety of possible academic disciplines to pursue and then practice upon graduation. Disciplines include:
- Agricultural Science
- Biochemistry
- Bioinformatics
- Biostatistics
- Botany
- Cell Biology
- Chemistry
- Epidemiology
- Food Science
- Functional Genomics
- Genetics
- Immunology
- Marine Biology
- Microbiology
- Molecular Biology
- Pharmacology
- Physiology
- Plant Pathology
- Toxicology
- Virology
- Zoology