What's the Best Biology School?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I am interested in pursuing a caeer in neuroscience and/or biomedical research after graduate school (which I think I'm going to do), but for undergraduate I think i should go with biology, as most colleges have a degree in this and having this would leave options for changing my plan later.</p>

<p>What school, out of all the schools in the USA, would you say has the best biology program?
this may be to general, but if you could offer some imput that would help
i'm trying to decide where to apply</p>

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<p>bump (190000characters</p>

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<p>I am being a bit bias, but WUSTL has a good bio program as well as a good bme program. The med school does a lot of work in neuroscience that you could get involved with as an undergrad. I would say any school with a good med school(or that places a lot of students in top med schools) would have great bio programs.</p>

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<p>If you want to go into research, you should choose a school with a strong undergraduate research program. Undergraduate research is probably the most important factor in a biology graduate school application, so it's important to find out how many undergraduates at schools on your final list are able to participate in research at a substantive level.</p>

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<p>so maybe he should look into a business or marketing type degree, or do an MBA</p>

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<p>Rice University has a top bio program and is close to the Texas Medical Center, easily one of the top 10 in the world.</p>

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<p>thanks so far, bump if needed</p>

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<p>Grinnell, Bowdoin, Reed, Carleton, Pomona, and Duke.</p>

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<p>I would be hesitant to include WUStL for biology. It has a good program, true, but [url=<a href="http://www.nslc.wustl.edu/Biomajors/questions.html%5D75%%5B/url"&gt;http://www.nslc.wustl.edu/Biomajors/questions.html]75%[/url&lt;/a&gt;] of biology majors are pre-med. That may make for a stifling environment- it certainly does in the biology program at Duke. </p>

<p>mollie gave you good advice. Almost any major university has plenty of research opportunities, and many LACs do as well. Davidson, for example, has a great neuroscience program; I know one Davidson student who did summer research at Columbia. Biology is a standard major that's strong at virtually any college or university in the top 100 or so, and you can't really go wrong with any of them. Create a list of what you want in a college- size, location, campus, etc. Once you have this list, <em>then</em> you can evaluate their programs.</p>

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<p>For research work in the biological sciences, the undergradute schools that produce the highest percentages of future PhDs in the field:</p>

<p>Reed
CalTech
Swarthmore
U Chicago
Kalamazoo
MIT
Earlham
Harvey Mudd
U Sciences Philadelphia
Grinnell</p>

<p>Source: Weighted Baccalaureate Origins Study, Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium</p>