<p>I'm looking at the following science majors:
Biology,
Psychobiology,
Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics (B.S.)
Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology (B.S.)
Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution (B.S.)</p>
<p>Questions:
1) What are the differences (subject material, course difficulty, workload, usefulness, etc) among all these? I've read the info on the site but just want a personal overview by a ucla student.
2) Do all of them require the same amount of required classes? I'm so confused just been looking/comparing all the pages.
3) What are your own opinions, if any, on these majors?
4) What are other people's opinions, that you may hear from friends/others, on these majors?</p>
<p>And now for a general question: have the totals/stats been released for the ucla's incoming student profile?</p>
<p>hey teal, i have the exact same question. im leaning toward evolutionary biology. try and figure out what branch you're most interested, so you can enjoy the major to the max. for instance, are you more interested in evolution or learning about cells? obviously there is overlap, but narrowing down your interests might help a bit. hope this helped a bit!</p>
<p>oh and there's a site where you can see all the classes required for each major...i dont remember it though, sorry!</p>
<p>"1) What are the differences (subject material, course difficulty, workload, usefulness, etc) among all these?"
"2) Do all of them require the same amount of required classes?"</p>
<p>the upper division focus is what makes these majors different. many of their lower division classes overlap with each other, and students from any of these majors all take the "life science core" consisting of the life science series, the chemistry series, physics, and calculus. but after that, then they specialize in their major, such as genetics if they're doing MIMG or developmental biology if they're doing MCDbio. i'm not a science major so i don't know which one is more difficult than the other, but i've heard it's basically your choice of whichever one suits you best. also, like ucapplicant05 says, each one has different unit/class requirements for graduation, but they're probably all similar to each other.</p>