"Emory University’s general biology program was ranked 6 out of 811 nationwide. This means the general biology program at Emory is a top 10 program in the U.S.
Emory improved its ranking position 1 slots over the previous year’s ranking of 7. See the full ranking by general biology major."
The other top 10 undergrad bio programs in this ranking were:
The rest of the top 10 (with the exception of MIT, Stanford, and Duke) seems pretty questionable
I always take undergraduate major rankings with a grain of salt. In my view, there also seems to be too much focus on a single subject area rather than the overall experience and institution on this forum.
@IzzoOne : . I also don’t trust subject based rankings for undergrad (maybe except engineering disciplines). I just know that Emory’s is very good and could tell one why other than stupid crap like: “Well our school is associated with a medical center”…and I have seen idiotic things like that said on this forum from students at other schools to swing an admit/prospective student their way (in reality, many schools without such centers are better at UG education in the area or several. Like many still underestimate LACs and STEM education when many are at the forefront of lots of innovation in it). The department isn’t all that great with undergrad. instruction and nothing special with resources, but the applicants will be tricked into thinking it is awesome simply because it is at a high ranked school with a medical center. Usually people on this forum kind of ignore departmental strengths and what “strength” means in favor of such vagueness. I have seen plenty of threads on it, don’t get me wrong, but even the high IQ students considering these elite publics and privates keep the conversation limited to important but also some petty things. Like I have seen prospective add and then amplify marginal differences in “campus beauty” and “amenities” to their calculation. I also see this weird increase in prospective going on the sub-forums of elite schools and asking the silly question of: “How rigorous is it here” as if they want or expect it to not be simply because they did well in HS despite the fact that it is a selective college so if the academic experience wasn’t rigorous, money is sort of being wasted.
I’m down for the “overall” experience thing, but when students do ask about programs and program specific things I would rather them not be fed non-sense saying: “Well this is an elite school, so everything must be good”…simply not true. The fact is, there are many less selective schools (many with great honors programs) that offer a great overall experiences as well as truly excellent undergraduate academics in several possible areas of interest of the prospective student.
I think too many on the forum, especially in ones similar to the sub-forum we are in now focus on the prestige more than overall experience OR strengths in areas of interest which means they can be duped or pressured into attending places that do not fit them on either metric.
Yes. I’ve seen some claim that you need to go to a school with a medical school to do premed. I guess Princeton has never and never will produce a doctor.
@IzzoOne : Indeed, some of the ideas on here, even some I see in these “elite” school threads, can be shocking at times.
The presence of a medical school implies a lot of grant funded biomedical research is taking place at a university. That’s a plus for biological sciences oriented students.
@BiffBrown : I’m talking about undergraduate education, not their ability to access a research lab…As beneficial as the latter is, the two need not be conflated or related.