Biological Sciences

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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
#1	Stanford University Stanford, CA	4.9
#2	Harvard University Boston, MA	4.8
#2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	4.8
#2	University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA	4.8
#5	California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	4.7
#5	Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	4.7
#7	Princeton University Princeton, NJ	4.5
#7	Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, CA	4.5
#7	University of California–San Francisco San Francisco, CA	4.5
#7	Yale University New Haven, CT	4.5
#11	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	4.4
#11	Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO	4.4
#13	Duke University Durham, NC	4.3
#13	University of Chicago Chicago, IL	4.3
#15	Columbia University New York, NY	4.2
#15	Rockefeller University New York, NY	4.2
#15	University of California–San Diego La Jolla, CA	4.2
#15	University of Washington Seattle, WA	4.2
#15	University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI	4.2
#20	University of California–Davis Davis, CA	4.1
#20	University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	4.1
#20	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	4.1
#20	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center–Dallas Dallas, TX	4.1
#24	University of California–Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	4.0
#24	University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC	4.0

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