Most Popular Schools for General Biology/Biological Sciences Major & Degree Program

A general program of biology at the introductory, basic level or a program in biology or the biological sciences that is undifferentiated as to title or content. Includes instruction in general biology and programs covering a variety of biological specializations.

Rank	School Name	Students	% of Total	Total On-Campus Cost
1	Florida International University	730	5%	$23,506
2	The University of Texas at Austin	626	4%	$26,506
3	University of California-Irvine	555	6%	$34,261
4	University of Wisconsin-Madison	522	4%	$26,025
5	University of California-Los Angeles	501	4%	$34,620
6	University of Florida	498	4%	$21,211
7	Arizona State University-Tempe	478	4%	$28,048
8	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	470	7%	$23,811
9	University of California-Riverside	462	9%	$35,242
10	University of Maryland-College Park	457	4%	$27,146
11	Ohio State University-Main Campus	424	3%	$27,367
12	Florida Atlantic University	424	5%	$24,235
13	The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	421	8%	$20,471
14	University of Georgia	418	4%	$26,688
15	University of Illinois at Chicago	413	6%	$30,866
16	Florida State University	408	4%	$22,168
17	San Francisco State University	391	5%	$27,480
18	Clemson University	387	6%	$31,270
19	University of California-San Diego	381	4%	$32,838
20	Stony Brook University	368	6%	$26,091
21	Rutgers University-New Brunswick	367	3%	$32,443
22	Michigan State University	364	3%	$28,862
23	Georgia State University	346	5%	$26,014
24	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	344	3%	$27,898
25	Virginia Commonwealth University	338	5%	$32,041
26	University of Maryland-Baltimore County	336	10%	$28,058
27	The University of Texas at San Antonio	325	5%	$23,715
28	University of North Texas	322	4%	$24,712
29	George Mason University	321	4%	$30,284
30	The University of Texas at Arlington	319	2%	$26,660
31	University of California-Merced	317	23%	$35,663
32	San Diego State University	315	3%	$29,318
33	California State University-Northridge	311	3%	$22,969
34	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College	310	5%	$30,360
35	University of California-Santa Barbara	308	5%	$36,659
36	Loyola University Chicago	308	7%	$61,328
37	The University of Texas at Dallas	302	4%	$29,286
38	University of South Florida-Main Campus	299	3%	$23,320
39	Miami University-Oxford	299	6%	$33,229
40	University of Missouri-Columbia	298	4%	$26,766
41	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	295	2%	$36,652
42	University of California-Davis	295	3%	$35,177
43	University of Virginia-Main Campus	294	5%	$33,493
44	University of South Carolina-Columbia	290	4%	$28,301
45	University of Houston	287	3%	$23,225
46	University of New Mexico-Main Campus	282	5%	$22,639
47	Baylor University	272	6%	$62,527
48	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	266	3%	$23,977
49	University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras	266	12%	$19,876
50	The University of Texas at El Paso	266	6%	$23,843
51	Georgia Southern University	263	5%	$23,014
52	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	261	3%	$30,913
53	Grand Canyon University	260	1%	$32,100
54	University of Central Florida	257	2%	$22,548
55	University at Buffalo	255	4%	$27,758
56	Cornell University	255	4%	$73,904
57	San Antonio College	250	5%	$4,311
58	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus	248	3%	$33,503
59	California State Polytechnic University-Pomona	247	4%	$28,891
60	University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus	243	5%	$29,357
61	California State University-Sacramento	241	3%	$26,454
62	California State University-Fullerton	237	2%	$27,738
63	University of Wisconsin-La Crosse	236	11%	$17,514
64	Indiana University-Bloomington	236	2%	$24,779
65	University of California-Berkeley	233	2%	$38,066
66	University of Connecticut	226	3%	$32,404
67	University of Kentucky	226	3%	$30,101
68	University of Nevada-Reno	226	5%	$25,039
69	University of Nevada-Las Vegas	224	4%	$24,035
70	Old Dominion University	214	4%	$26,456
71	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	213	3%	$26,834
72	Nova Southeastern University	212	5%	$50,597
73	Temple University	210	2%	$33,004
74	University of Arkansas	209	4%	$25,500
75	University of Cincinnati-Main Campus	208	2%	$27,476
76	The University of Alabama	205	2%	$29,872
77	University of North Carolina Wilmington	204	5%	$24,982
78	California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo	203	4%	$28,302
79	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville	203	3%	$31,510
80	California State University-East Bay	200	4%	$25,143
81	University of Massachusetts-Boston	197	5%	$36,647
82	Emory University	196	5%	$69,502
83	Northern Arizona University	196	2%	$27,266
84	James Madison University	196	4%	$27,356
85	SUNY at Albany	195	4%	$26,734
86	University of North Carolina at Charlotte	195	3%	$23,694
87	Texas A & M University-College Station	194	1%	$29,506
88	University of Utah	194	2%	$24,472
89	Oregon State University	193	3%	$26,892
90	Kean University	192	6%	$30,475
91	University of Washington-Seattle Campus	190	2%	$27,638
92	Iowa State University	189	2%	$21,186
93	Binghamton University	189	4%	$26,866
94	Towson University	189	3%	$26,834
95	Metropolitan State University of Denver	189	6%	$9,066
96	California State University-Long Beach	188	2%	$24,738
97	Boston College	187	5%	$73,092
98	East Carolina University	186	3%	$21,672
99	Rowan University	184	4%	$32,099
100	South Texas College	183	3%	$4,980

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Biology/Biological Sciences, General program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.