<p>Hi,
I'm interested in biology/biochemistry and I'm planning to look into some public schools.</p>
<p>Can anybody give me some names???</p>
<p>purdue, iu-bloomington, miami(OH), ohio u-athens, wisconsin-madison</p>
<p>UCSD <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8939242/site/newsweek/%5B/url%5D">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8939242/site/newsweek/</a></p>
<p>I'd say for your interests, the following 5 state universities are probably the strongest.
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-San Diego
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin-Madison </p>
<p>Here's another few that are very solid:
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Colorado-Boulder
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Texas-Austin</p>
<p>Avoid the "brand name" syndrome. These places can't be beat.</p>
<p>Michigan State University
Virginia Tech
University Alabama at Birmingham</p>
<p>I definitely second LakeWashington's list. MSU and Alabama have incredible biology programs. I would also add UC-Davis and UVA to the list.</p>
<p>UAB not UA-Tuscaloosa.</p>
<p>UAB is really very, very good for anything medical-realted.</p>
<p>University of Florida</p>
<p>Thanks Tsdad for the clarification. Even some of the "respectable" college guides (the one published by Yale Univ., for example) irresponsibly confuse the Birmingham and Tuscaloosa campuses of the U of Alabama. For those not in the know, the so-called flagship campus is Tuscaloosa. But the relatively new Birmingham school is the one with the outstanding biology/health sciences facilities, medical school and university hospital. In fact, UAB is not a branch campus. It is officially an independent unit with no formal ties to UA-Tuscaloosa.</p>
<p>I was in Birmingham last month. My niece with cystic fibrosis was treated from the time she was a young child at UAB. Outstanding medical facilities. Not bad in basketball, and it has a new football program.</p>
<p>Fine school, yes. But that oddball school mascot and name, "the Blazers?" I'm not crazy about the school colors [green and gold] either. :-)</p>
<p>Wisconsin would be among the top few.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.biotech.wisc.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.biotech.wisc.edu/</a></p>