Which college is best for microbiology or genetic engineering majors? :)

[daniella1893]

<p>Hi
I was just accepted to:
UC Davis- Genetics
UCSB- Pre Bio. going into Microbiology with a focus in Genetic Engineering
Cal Poly SLO- Microbiology
UCSC- Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology </p>

<p>I really love science and I am looking for a school with interesting and challenging academics and a great, relaxed vibe. I did really well in high school and want to be at a college where the learning is fun, but not intimidating. </p>

<p>If you could share your advice or experiences with these colleges or jobs in these fields, I would really appreciate it.
Thanks :)</p>

[ucbalumnus]

<p>Job wise, prospects for biology majors are poor at the bachelor’s level. Lots of pre-meds major in biology, and those that do not get into medical school (which is most of them) flood the job market for low paid lab technician jobs.</p>

<p>Cal Poly’s career survey: [Graduate</a> Status Survey index - Career Services - Cal Poly](<a href=“http://www.careerservices.calpoly.edu/gradsurvey/]Graduate”>http://www.careerservices.calpoly.edu/gradsurvey/)</p>

<p>UC Berkeley’s career survey: <a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[rdugar]

<p>Mloec/Ge/Genetics-national research council rankings</p>

<p>1 MIT 4.88
2 Cal San Francisco 4.87
3 Harvard 4.77
4 Cal Tech 4.51
5 Stanford 4.48
6 Cal San Diego 4.44
7 Wisconsin 4.33
8 Yale 4.32
9 Johns Hopkins 4.26
10 Cal Berkeley 4.21
11 Chicago 4.17
12 Columbia 4.14
13 Utah 4.08
14 Baylor College of Medicine 4.07
15 Duke 4.01
16 Washington (St. Louis) 3.98
17 Washington 3.93
18 Texas Southwestern Med Ctr 3.91
19 Penn 3.81
20 North Carolina 3.78
21 Michigan 3.75
22 SUNY Stony Brook 3.73
23 Cornell 3.68
24 Indiana 3.64
25 Albert Einstein College of Med 3.53
26 Texas Health Sci Ctr Houston 3.49
27 Brandeis 3.48
28 Texas 3.47
29 Rochester 3.44
30 North Carolina State 3.36
31 Rutgers 3.35
32 Penn State 3.34
33 Emory 3.34
34 Arizona 3.32
35 Illinois 3.30
36 Vanderbilt 3.26
37 Michigan State 3.26
38 Texas A&M 3.24
39 Minnesota 3.23
40 Georgia 3.22
41 Case Western 3.22
42 Iowa 3.21
43 Cal Davis 3.21
44 Cal Riverside 3.17
45 Alabama Birmingham 3.15
46 Pittsburgh 3.11
47 Cal Santa Barbara 3.09
48 Cal Irvine 3.09
49 Massachusetts Medical 3.07
50 Florida 3.07
51 Colorado 3.07
52 NYU 3.04
53 Oregon State 3.00
54 Ohio State 2.98
55 Cincinnati 2.97
56 Cal Santa Cruz 2.97
57 SUNY Buffalo 2.94
58 Kansas State 2.90
59 Connecticut 2.88
60 Temple 2.84
61 Virginia 2.83
62 Iowa State 2.82
63 Illinois Chicago 2.81
64 Wayne State 2.77
65 LSU 2.67
66 SUNY Albany 2.59
67 LSU Medical 2.54
68 Hawaii Manoa 2.52
69 Arizona State 2.50
70 Missouri 2.44
71 Notre Dame 2.43
72 Syracuse 2.40
73 SUNY Health Brooklyn 2.40
74 Montana State 2.30
75 Wake Forest 2.29
76 Albany Medical College 2.13
77 New Hampshire 2.08
78 West Virginia 2.00
79 Nebraska 2.00
80 Hahnemann 2.00
81 Florida State 2.00
82 Medical College of Wisconsin 1.92
83 Maryland Baltimore 1.86
84 Oklahoma 1.73
85 New Mexico 1.73
86 Houston 1.62
87 Howard 1.56
88 Georgia Tech 1.55
89 Clemson 1.45
90 Miami 1.33
91 Louisville 1.27
92 Illinois State 1.25
93 Tennessee 1.11
94 Boston University 1.05
95 Drexel 0.93
96 Tulsa 0.75
97 Bowling Green 0.69
98 Kansas 0.67
99 Ohio 0.47
100 Clark 0.30
101 Idaho 0.24
102 Northern Arizona 0.17</p>

[rdugar]

<p>Biochem/Molec Biol-nrc rankings</p>

<p>1 Cal San Francisco 4.84
2 Stanford 4.83
3 MIT 4.83
4 Cal Berkeley 4.81
5 Harvard 4.80
6 Yale 4.59
7 Cal Tech 4.57
8 Wisconsin 4.55
9 Cal San Diego 4.53
10 Johns Hopkins 4.38
11 Columbia 4.38
12 Colorado 4.26
13 Washington (St. Louis) 4.22
14 UCLA 4.20
15 Duke 4.18
16 Penn 4.11
17 Brandeis 4.06
18 Washington 4.05
19 Baylor College of Medicine 4.04
20 Texas Southwestern Med Ctr 4.00
21 Rockefeller 3.92
22 Cornell 3.91
23 Michigan 3.89
24 Chicago 3.89
25 Oregon 3.88
26 North Carolina 3.83
27 Albert Einstein College of Med 3.79
28 Utah 3.72
29 Vanderbilt 3.68
30 Northwestern 3.59
31 SUNY Stony Brook 3.58
32 Texas 3.57
33 Illinois 3.55
34 Cal Davis 3.52
35 Rutgers 3.47
36 NYU 3.47
37 Southern Cal 3.46
38 Oregon State 3.46
39 Minnesota 3.46
40 Carnegie Mellon 3.45
41 Texas Health Sci Ctr Houston 3.42
42 Indiana 3.42
43 Rice 3.39
44 Purdue 3.39
45 Penn State 3.39
46 Iowa 3.36
47 Case Western 3.35
48 Mayo Graduate School 3.34
49 Alabama Birmingham 3.34
50 Michigan State 3.33
51 Cal Santa Cruz 3.33
52 Cal Irvine 3.31
53 Massachusetts Medical 3.30
54 Rochester 3.29
55 Cal Santa Barbara 3.23
56 Arizona 3.23
57 Virginia 3.16
58 Ohio State 3.16
59 Tufts 3.09
60 North Carolina State 3.09
61 Brown 3.09
62 Texas Health Sci Ct San Antonio 3.08
63 Washington State 3.05
64 Georgia 3.03
65 Dartmouth College 3.02
66 Iowa State 3.00
67 Cal Riverside 2.96
68 Texas A&M 2.95
69 Missouri 2.92
70 Saint Louis 2.91
71 Connecticut 2.90
72 Florida 2.88
73 Tennessee Memphis 2.86
74 Louisville 2.86
75 Emory 2.86
76 South Carolina 2.84
77 Nebraska 2.84
78 Cincinnati 2.81
79 Massachusetts 2.78
80 Delaware 2.78
81 Boston University 2.78
82 Maryland 2.74
83 Illinois Chicago 2.72
84 Georgetown 2.70
85 Thomas Jefferson 2.69
86 Wayne State 2.68
87 Pittsburgh 2.68
88 SUNY Buffalo 2.67
89 Colorado State 2.67
90 Kentucky 2.64
91 Houston 2.61
92 New Hampshire 2.60
93 Medical College of Pensylvania 2.57
94 Kansas 2.56
95 Texas Medical Galveston 2.55
96 New Mexico 2.53
97 CUNY 2.51
98 Nevada Reno 2.50
99 Missouri Kansas City 2.50
100 Miami 2.49</p>

[rdugar]

<p>Cell Biol</p>

<p>1 MIT 4.86
2 Rockefeller 4.77
3 Cal San Francisco 4.76
4 Cal Tech 4.73
5 Harvard 4.70
6 Stanford 4.55
7 Cal San Diego 4.50
8 Washington 4.48
9 Washington (St. Louis) 4.39
10 Yale 4.37
11 Princeton 4.36
12 Cal Berkeley 4.16
13 Duke 4.11
14 Chicago 4.10
15 Wisconsin 4.05
16 UCLA 3.99
17 Texas Southwestern Med Ctr 3.98
18 Columbia 3.94
19 Johns Hopkins 3.91
20 NYU 3.86
21 Colorado 3.85
22 Penn 3.81
23 Baylor College of Medicine 3.80
24 North Carolina 3.79
25 Albert Einstein College of Med 3.76
26 Illinois 3.74
27 Brandeis 3.73
28 Vanderbilt 3.69
29 Michigan 3.66
30 Northwestern 3.64
31 Indiana 3.59
32 Cal Davis 3.55
33 Minnesota 3.54
34 SUNY Stony Brook 3.53
35 Cornell 3.53
36 Texas Health Sci Ctr Houston 3.46
37 Cal Irvine 3.44
38 Michigan State 3.41
39 Virginia 3.39
40 Case Western 3.38
41 Texas 3.37
42 Rochester 3.35
43 Purdue 3.33
44 Miami 3.33
45 Massachusetts Medical 3.33
46 Southern Cal 3.31
47 Alabama Birmingham 3.31
48 Iowa 3.28
49 Massachusetts 3.21
50 Oregon State 3.20
51 Emory 3.20
52 Tufts 3.16
53 Illinois Chicago 3.11
54 Penn State 3.10
55 Thomas Jefferson 3.09
56 Texas Health Sci Ct San Antonio 3.09
57 Brown 3.08
58 Rutgers 3.07
59 Ohio State 3.06
60 Iowa State 3.05
61 Arizona 3.00
62 Texas A&M 2.97
63 Maryland Baltimore 2.96
64 Kansas 2.95
65 Pittsburgh 2.93
66 Maryland Baltimore County 2.92
67 North Carolina State 2.88
68 Missouri 2.88
69 Medical College of Wisconsin 2.88
70 Cal Riverside 2.87
71 Kentucky 2.82
72 Uniformed Services U of Hlth Sci 2.77
73 Tennessee 2.77
74 Florida 2.77
75 SUNY Buffalo 2.75
76 Tennessee Memphis 2.73
77 Georgia 2.72
78 Colorado State 2.72
79 Vermont 2.70
80 Cincinnati 2.68
81 New Mexico 2.67
82 Maryland 2.67
83 Cal Santa Barbara 2.67
84 Rice 2.65
85 Texas Tech 2.64
86 Cal Santa Cruz 2.60
87 Wake Forest 2.59
88 Oklahoma 2.59
89 Albany Medical College 2.59
90 SUNY Health Syracuse 2.57
91 Houston 2.57
92 Temple 2.54
93 Georgetown 2.54
94 LSU 2.53
95 Arizona State 2.52
96 Washington State 2.50
97 Connecticut 2.48
98 Missouri Kansas City 2.45
99 Wayne State 2.43
100 Nebraska 2.42</p>

[rdugar]

<p>certainly uc-davis is the best of the lot and genetics got a bright future.Best of luck.</p>