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Most Popular Schools for General Genetics Major & Degree Program

A general program that focuses on the scientific study of the organization, recombination, function, regulation, and transmission of heritable information in biological organisms at all levels of complexity. Includes instruction in Mendelian genetics, mechanisms of gene regulation, chromosome structure and replication, epigenetic phenomena, DNA repair and recombination, sex determination, genetic interactions between genomes, and molecular evolution.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 University of California-Davis 114 1% $35,177
2 University of Wisconsin-Madison 85 1% $26,025
3 Iowa State University 43 1% $21,186
4 University of Georgia 39 0% $26,688
5 North Carolina State University at Raleigh 25 0% $23,977
6 University of New Hampshire-Main Campus 23 1% $33,750
7 Washington State University 20 0% $27,484
8 Yale University 15 0% $73,900
9 Purdue University-Main Campus 14 0% $22,822
10 New Mexico State University-Main Campus 8 0% $21,380
11 University of California-Irvine 6 0% $34,261
12 University of Connecticut 5 0% $32,404
13 Yeshiva University 5 0% $62,075
14 University of Rochester 3 0% $72,721
15 West Virginia University 2 0% $23,294
16 Case Western Reserve University 2 0% $67,332
17 Ohio Wesleyan University 2 1% $61,910
18 Dartmouth College 2 0% $74,359
19 The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston 1 0% N/A
20 University of Chicago 1 0% $78,555
21 Howard University 1 0% $44,651
22 Kansas State University 1 0% $24,923

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Genetics, 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.