Yale University PhD in Biological & Biomedical Sciences

108 Doctor's Degrees Awarded

Biological & Biomedical Sciences is a program of study at Yale University. The school offers a doctor’s degree in the area. Here, you’ll find out more about the major doctor’s degree program in biological and biomedical sciences, including such details as the number of graduates, ethnicity of students, related majors and concentrations, and more.

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Graduate Cost
Online Learning
Student Diversity
Focus Areas
References

How Much Does a Doctorate in Biological & Biomedical Sciences from Yale Cost?

$44,500 Average Tuition and Fees

Yale Graduate Tuition and Fees

The average full-time tuition and fees for graduate students are shown in the table below.

	In State	Out of State
Tuition	$44,500	$44,500

Does Yale Offer an Online PhD in Biological & Biomedical Sciences?

Yale does not offer an online option for its biological and biomedical sciences doctor’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Yale Online Learning page.

Yale Doctorate Student Diversity for Biological & Biomedical Sciences

108 Doctor's Degrees Awarded

54.6% Women

28.7% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

During the 2019-2020 academic year, there were 108 doctor’s degrees in biological and biomedical sciences handed out to qualified students. The charts and tables below give more information about these students.

Male-to-Female Ratio

About 54.6% of the students who received their PhD in biological and biomedical sciences in 2019-2020 were women. This is in the same ballpark of the nationwide number of 53.4%.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 28.7% of the biological and biomedical sciences doctor’s degrees at Yale in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 21%.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	17
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	7
Native American or Alaska Native	0
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	0
White	50
International Students	27
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

PhD in Biological & Biomedical Sciences Focus Areas at Yale

Biological & Biomedical Sciences students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.

Focus Area	Annual Graduates
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	18
Cell Biology & Anatomical Sciences	21
Microbiological Sciences & Immunology	19
Genetics	12
Physiology & Pathology Sciences	7

References

*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.