Biological Sciences

Ranked in 2010 | Biological Sciences Rankings Methodology

A graduate degree in biological sciences gives students a broad base of knowledge in the life sciences. The discipline also offers many specialties, such as cell or molecular biology. These are the best schools for biological sciences.

Rank School name Score
#220 Portland State University

Portland, OR

2.0
#7 Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

4.5
#56 Purdue University–​West Lafayette

West Lafayette, IN

3.3
#100 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Troy, NY

2.8
#42 Rice University

Houston, TX

3.5
#15 Rockefeller University

New York, NY

4.2
#144 Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

North Chicago, IL

2.5
#195 Rush University

Chicago, IL

2.2
#71 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–​New Brunswick

New Brunswick, NJ

3.1
#130 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–​Newark

Newark, NJ

2.6
#92 San Diego State University

San Diego, CA

2.9
#7 Scripps Research Institute

La Jolla, CA

4.5
#195 South Dakota State University

Brookings, SD

2.2
#181 Southern Illinois University–​Carbondale

Carbondale, IL

2.3
#160 Southern Methodist University

Dallas, TX

2.4
#220 St. John's University

Queens, NY

2.0
#115 St. Louis University

St. Louis, MO

2.7
#1 Stanford University

Stanford, CA

4.9
#68 Stony Brook University–​SUNY

Stony Brook, NY

3.2
#160 SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Syracuse, NY

2.4
#207 SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Brooklyn, NY

2.1
#160 SUNY Upstate Medical Center

Syracuse, NY

2.4
#115 Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY

2.7
#195 Teachers College, Columbia University

New York, NY

2.2
#115 Temple University

Philadelphia, PA

2.7

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Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings by Bob Morse
Updates to 2 Schools' 2013 Best Colleges Ranks

University of Mary Hardin–Baylor and York College of Pennsylvania are now in the ‘Unranked’ category.

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