<p>I'm having difficulting finding which colleges and universities have the best undergraduate biology programs (especially for molecular bio). Are there any schools that are distinguished for their bio departments?</p>
<p>Does anyone know where I could find rankings? Or does anyone have recommendations?</p>
<p>Wisconsin-Madison.</p>
<p>Duke (10 char)</p>
<p>Duke and JHU</p>
<p>University of Wisconsin - Madison, Duke, and JHU? I hope there are more/others...but thanks!</p>
<p>Biology rankings from Gourman Report
Caltech
MIT
Yale
Harvard
Wisconsin
UC San Diego
UC Berkeley
U Colorado
Columbia
Stanford
U Washington
U Chicago
Duke
Wash U St Louis
UCLA
U Michigan
Cornell
U Penn
Purdue
Indiana U
UNC Chapel Hill
U Utah
Johns Hopkins
Northwestern
Princeton
UC Irvine
Notre Dame
UC Santa Barbara
UVA
Brown
U Illinois Urbana Champaign
U Pittsburgh
Vanderbilt
U Oregon
SUNY Stony Brook
U Rochester
Tufts
U Minnesota
SUNY Buffalo
U Texas Austin
Florida State
Michigan State
USC
U Connecticut
UC Riverside
Rice
Iowa State
SUNY Albany
Case Western
Boston U
Ohio State
NYU
U Iowa
Penn State
Emory
Brandeis
U Kansas
Rutgers New Brunswick
Tulane
US Air Force Academy
U Missouri Columbia</p>
<p>William & Mary has a strong Bio dept.</p>
<p>UCSD, Caltech, Berkeley</p>
<p>lots of schools have "strong" biology departments. for an undergrad's purposes, any top school will probably do. you will be best off at a smaller research university with a strong med school where you will have lots of opportunities to take upper level and graduate level classes in your junior and senior years and lots of opportunities to perform research in the bio department and at the medical school. Top research med schools get a lot of grants to perform biomedical research.</p>
<p>Georgetown</p>
<p>Hardly...........</p>
<p>Zachary Dobbin (COL'08), a Georgetown undergraduate student conducting cancer research at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, took first place in the 2008 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Undergraduate Poster Competition at the annual meeting in San Diego.</p>
<p>Dobbin conducts research in the laboratory of Robert Clarke, professor in the departments of oncology and of physiology and biophysics. He was one of only ten undergraduate students to be awarded the AACR-Thomas J. Bardos Science Education Awards in 2007 for Undergraduate Students. The 2007 and 2008 Bardos Science Award winners competed in the undergraduate poster competition on April 12.</p>
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Georgetown is considerably weaker in the sciences than its peers.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>2 words: Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>Hypsmc</p>
<p>....</p>
<p>Any top 20 school.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the feedback, everyone, especially collegehelp and venkat89! I'll go look up the recommended schools.</p>
<p>stanford deff</p>
<p>Duke and Johns Hopkins.</p>
<p>Cell biology program at Hopkins ranked #1 and Biochemistry program #3 and a variety of different fields ranked among top 10 within biomedical/biosciences ranking.</p>
<p>This is coming from a Hopkins sophomore, so it may generally be bias.</p>
<p>Generally, going on what venkat89 said about having a small school with a strong medical school, I would have to agree and is another reason why I recommended Duke and Hopkins. Opportunities are more readily available at institutions with easy transportatin and ready access to their medical facility because #1, opportunities like lab assistants and research assistant jobs are just ridiculously bountiful at the medical campus, #2 undergrads from the same institution are readily welcomed to assisted and help out with research, #3, undergrad level biology is considered really basic. Just having a graduate level program which you can feed on such as getting jobs and meeting professors and getting experience is very valueable especially toward your experience in undergrad and resume as well. Much more so than just having a undergrad biology program alone. Its great if you can add to that and have another resource to gain from.</p>