<p>Yeah, my head might have almost exploded.</p>
<p>MIT is absolutely tops at molecular biology, cell biology, genomics, and neurobiology. There isn’t much organismal biology or evolution, though there is some ecology-type stuff in the earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences department, and there is the opportunity to do marine biology through Woods Hole.</p>
<p>For someone who was really primarily interested in evolutionary or organismal biology, another school might offer a better course selection. But MIT students can cross-register at Harvard, which does have an OEB department – I think that would be ideal for a student who was interested in OEB as well as more molecular stuff, but for someone who’s primarily interested in OEB, it’s probably not adequate.</p>