<p>Hey, out of curiosity I want to know what are the top 10 public schools for Biology or simply the life sciences. It's hard to find believable sources and was wondering about everyone's opinion.</p>
<p>Replies would be appreciated!</p>
<p>haha yeaa as is Michigan, UT Austin, and Uc Berkeley.</p>
<p>Four. What else could possibly make the list? Probaly OSU?</p>
<p>I don’t get your question. How would that list of ten be any different from the list of the Top 10 public Universities? If the question were about Engineering, or Business, then the lists would indeed look quite different from the basic list, but life sciences is pretty much at the core of any University’s curriculum.</p>
<p>So, off the top of my head, I’ll try to remember the top 10 Public Universities:</p>
<p>Berkeley
UCLA
UVA
UNC
Michigan
College of William and Mary
Georgia Tech</p>
<p>after those I struggle… maybe UC San Diego, UC Davis, and University of Texas at Austin or University of Washington.</p>
<p><em>edit</em></p>
<p>OK, I’m rethinking this. Technically parts of Cornell are Public, so I would put them close to Berkeley.</p>
<p>I also checked the USNWR, and I forgot about Wisconsin.</p>
<p>Biology is a broad subject area with many subareas. A ranking for you that accounts for your specific subarea interests may not necessarily match the usual rankings.</p>
<p>Check the faculty rosters and course listings to see what subareas are emphasized.</p>
<p>Public universities are not necessarily inexpensive if you are not a resident of the same state (and they typically come up quite short on financial aid if you are not a resident of the same state).</p>
<p>I just did some searches and found UC San Diego, University of Wisconsin, and University of Washington very high when it comes to the life sciences. When it comes to Marine Science UC San Diego is the best.</p>
<p>Check the USNWR or NRC/Chronicle graduate program rankings for biology and its subfields.</p>
<p>The top public universities for general biology according to USNWR include:
Berkeley
UCSD
Washington
Wisconsin
UC Davis
Michigan
UCLA
UNC-CH
UT-Austin
UC-Boulder and UIUC</p>
<p>This list overlaps with, but is not exactly the same as, the list of USNWR top-ranked public universities for undergraduates. The graduate program rankings don’t cover factors that may be important to some undergraduates (such as average class size, admissions selectivity, or financial resources).</p>
<p>How about for Chemistry?</p>
<p>Wisconsin is good in Chemistry</p>
<p>What about besides Wisconsin?</p>
<p>What is your career goal? </p>
<p>Bio and Chem are such common majors that many, many schools have very good programs. In most cases, any of those schools are plenty good enough.</p>
<p>All the top 10 publics will have excellent biology and chemistry programs… as will just about any university in the top 100. These are basic subjects.</p>
<p>My career goal is to become a orthopedic surgeon. My absolute dream is to be an ESPN featured doctor and if not a team doctor. And advice? I have gotten great grades in high school (not to sound conceded but I’m really smart) but I have a huge problem of partying too much which has influenced my college choice a bit. I am worried this isn’t a good habit because of my strenuous career goals and plans</p>
<p>Huge problem of partying is certainly something you should be giving priority to correct, for your future, and not take that habit to college. Really it sounds like you should get professional help since you define it as a problem. Those sort of problems usually snowball overtime and don’t get better without deliberate action. That might be a reason to not go to large public’s, where there is such a large contingent of parties, often. Maybe look at small liberal arts colleges, many have excellent bio programs, and often have excellent admit rates to med school. Many also give merit aid, which can be impossible or near impossible to get if you are OOS for a top public. That merit aid can make the school much less expensive than an OOS public.</p>
<p>That would be running from my problems which I really don’t want to do. I will be doing work study and undergrad research which I hope will take time out of partying. Also, I am trying me best to stay away from parties this summer and instead engaging in various sports since that is another huge interest of mine. I doubt I would fit in a small liberal arts school.</p>
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I’ll concede that point, but I refuse to conceit it :)</p>
<p>You really should go to Michigan since it’s not a top party school.</p>
<p>If your goal is to go to med school, then going to a Top Biology School should NOT be a priority.</p>
<p>What are your test scores and GPA?</p>
<p>What state are you in?</p>
<p>What is your budget?</p>
<p>I dont know if you want to consider an international school but if you do the University of Toronto and McGill University both have easily top 10 premed and physical science departments in North America, and they are both reasonably close to the US border.</p>