The main focus area for this major is Biology Studies. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
General Biology is a major offered under the biological and biomedical sciences program of study at United States Air Force Academy. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the bachelor’s degree program in biology, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, and more.
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Each year, we produce a number of different types of college rankings to help students decide which school is the best fit for them. The biology major at USAFA is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Biology. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.
Here are some of the other rankings for USAFA.
Online degrees for the USAFA biology bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the USAFA Online Learning page.
Women made up around 67.9% of the biology students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is in the same ballpark of the nationwide number of 66.0%.
Around 34.0% of biology bachelor’s degree recipients at USAFA in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 43%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 4 |
Black or African American | 1 |
Hispanic or Latino | 5 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 1 |
White | 32 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 10 |
General Biology students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Biology Studies | 53 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to general biology.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology | 9 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.