A degree in molecular biology is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #356 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for molecular biology students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 55 degrees in molecular biology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The molecular biology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Molecular Biology rankings. We derive our Best Overall Molecular Biology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
The molecular biology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Molecular Biology Schools in New York.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the molecular biology degree levels they offer.
Any student who is interested in molecular biology has to check out Cornell University. Cornell is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Ithaca. A Best Colleges rank of #22 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Cornell is a great university overall.
There were about 8 molecular biology students who graduated with this degree at Cornell in the most recent year we have data available.
Colgate University is a great option for students interested in a degree in molecular biology. Colgate is a small private not-for-profit university located in the distant town of Hamilton. This university ranks 5th out of 142 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were roughly 31 molecular biology students who graduated with this degree at Colgate in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in molecular biology has to take a look at Stony Brook University. Located in the suburb of Stony Brook, SUNY Stony Brook is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 18th out of 142 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were roughly 6 molecular biology students who graduated with this degree at SUNY Stony Brook in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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The molecular biology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Molecular Biology rankings. We derive our Best Overall Molecular Biology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
