Biological Sciences

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<p>How good is Columbia's dept. of Biological sciences?</p>

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<p>It’s good. Happy? :)</p>

<p>Anyways, at the undergrad level, department strength doesn’t really matter all that much since we’ll be taught by graduate students anyway.</p>

<p>Which school are you comparing it with?</p>

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Just go one step further and you see Dept ranking is VERY important for the quality of undergrad education! It is because the quality of graduate students (as well as the faculty to some degree) goes with department/specialy ranking and it is the graduate students who get involved with teaching ug recitations and labs, etc. So, Dept ranking => quality of grad students => quality of UG classes.</p>

<p>Here is the ranking of biological sciences:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/1006939-princeton-2010-national-research-council-nrc-rankings-news-item.html#post11257461[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/1006939-princeton-2010-national-research-council-nrc-rankings-news-item.html#post11257461&lt;/a&gt;
BIOLOGY</p>

<p>1—Cal Tech
2—UC San Diego
3—UC San Diego (different department)
4—Princeton
5—Rockefeller U.
6—Stanford
7—UCSF
8—Yale
9—Yale (different department)
10–Columbia</p>

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<p>Thank you @toughyear. @iamanapp I’m going to Columbia next year, and I want to study bio, so I just wanted to know :)</p>