<p>biology-related majors: throw in other top colleges too!</p>
<p>why do you care? go to a college that's good for you. you make the college not the other way around</p>
<p>my personal opinion:</p>
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<li>Brown - becuase I go to school here</li>
<li>Everybody else - because I don't go there</li>
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<p>honestly, none strike my mind as being that great. It's weird, cornell's bio program looooks amazing, but isn't ranked as high as like Duke's. But for phyiscs and chemistry, Cornell rocks.</p>
<p>Personally, I'd vote for Harvard, Stanford, and MIT as having the best bio programs. Princeton's and Yale's would be the next step down. Columbia has a really good neuroscience program -- lots of Nobel laureates.</p>
<p>Yale's bio program is quite good. Also look at Cornell's.</p>
<p>haven't heard anything good about bio in yale. im aiming for bio undergrad, too. i would say - MIT, Harvard. I've talked to professors from all the colleges that I visited and the harvard professor said that if you want the best education, go to MIT. I wouldn't go there simply because of the atmosphere, though. Harvard is making a new intro bio course for 2006, idk how good it will be, but it's promising. although they won't let you get out of that class.</p>
<p>i would look into tufts, its a good school. rumor from a couple of PhDs i know is that tufts is losing money and will fund research less in the next few years. columbia is another choice.</p>
<p>if you want the west coast - USC is frickin amazing. try reading the Science magazine, half the papers there are from USC. Then some from harvard med school, and the rest from europe. there's no way i'm moving west, so i didn't look at USC.</p>
<p>All my info is from a research perspective, though. I'm working in research already, so I'm looking for colleges with good grad schools where i could work. As far as undergrad education, idk.</p>
<p>The best bio programs in the ivies are Cornell and Harvard...Both are extremely strong across all disciplines. Cornell being particularly strong in the life sciences (e.g. evolution, ecology, genetics and development) and Harvard being particularly strong in Molecular and Cell Biology. Again, much of it depends on your intended concentration. If you want to study organismal biology, Cornell is second to none except for maybe UC Davis, but you'd be hard pressed to find any classes in ecology and evolution at MIT for example. So it really depends on what you want. Places like MIT or Cal-Tech, and to a lesser extent, even stanford are very good, but have a somewhat limited scope (focusing more on cell and molecular biology than organismal biology). If, however, you want to sample broadly from a diverse array of disciplines (in other words, your undecided on what the hell it is you want to do) you might be better off at a UC Berkeley, Cornell or Duke. Back to your original question, all the ivies offer outstanding opportunities in the biological sciences...you should also check out schools like Duke, the University of Chicago (absolutely top notch in biology), UC Berkeley, UC Davis (again, absolutely phenomenal program, especially in organismal biology), University of Washington, UT Austin, UW Madison, UM Ann Arbor to name a few. I teach biology at the university of miami, so I have a pretty good idea of what programs are producing the best students and the best research.</p>
<p>hope this helps...</p>
<p>CUgrad</p>
<p>Cornell and Harvard, but I would think all Ivy League schools would have great bio programs</p>
<p>Other really good programs are JHU, Stanford, Duke, MIT, and UC Berk
I'm sure there are many more</p>
<p>Liberal arts colleges such as Swartmore and Williams have great pre-med/bio too</p>