Full-time students in the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine can complete the bioethics M.A. degree in one year. Case also offers dual masters degrees with bioethics and medicine, law, nursing, public health or social work. The university has collaborated with Harvard University on a summer seminar about the ethical and policy issues related to stem cell research. "U.S. News and World Report" ranks the Cleveland-based university as the best university in Ohio and among the top schools in the nation.
Columbia University in New York City offers an M.S. degree in bioethics, with a concentration in global issues, through its School of Continuing Education. Courses span the areas of medicine, nursing, public health, international affairs, law and journalism to inform scientists, health care professionals and policy-makers. The university established its Center for Bioethics, which collaborates with entities such as Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and Harlem Hospital Center, as well as Zulia University in Maracaibo, Venezuela.
The Wake Forest M.A in bioethics may be coupled with degrees in medicine and law. This Baptist university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, also offers a joint master's with bioethics and divinity, integrating questions about the role of religion in beginning-of-life and end-of life decisions. In 2006, the university's Institute for Regenerative Medicine pioneered the first successful transplant of laboratory organs from a patient's own cells, expanding this growing field of bioethical inquiry.
The bioethics M.A. at Emory draws on perspectives from the university's programs in medicine, nursing, public health, law, business and theology. The Emory University Center for Ethics has co-sponsored campus programs including a lecture on "Gender Differences in Environmental Health Threats" and the "Greening Healthcare Conference." The center also has forged relationships with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Methodist-founded university is located in Atlanta, Georgia.
The University of Minnesota's M.A. in bioethics provides an interdisciplinary approach to the field of study and offers a concentration in health law and bioethics. The Minneapolis-based university's Center for Bioethics has explored research into the ethical considerations of rationing medical supplies during a influenza pandemic, marketing practices of the pharmaceutical industry, end-of-life health care for homeless populations and living-donor organ transplants. The center developed "EthicShare," an online information exchange for ethics scholars.