If you plan on majoring in biostatistics, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #382 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Massachusetts to determine which ones were the best for biostatistics students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 119 degrees in biostatistics during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The biostatistics program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Biostatistics rankings. For our Best Overall Biostatistics School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Biostatistics Schools in Massachusetts list to help you make the college decision.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the biostatistics degrees they offer, see the list below.
Harvard University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in biostatistics. Located in the city of Cambridge, Harvard is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #6 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Harvard is a great university overall.
There were approximately 54 biostatistics students who graduated with this degree at Harvard in the most recent year we have data available.
Boston University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in biostatistics. Located in the large city of Boston, Boston U is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. This university ranks 6th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were roughly 50 biostatistics students who graduated with this degree at Boston U in the most recent data year.
University of Massachusetts Amherst is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in biostatistics. UMass Amherst is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Amherst. This university ranks 11th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were roughly 10 biostatistics students who graduated with this degree at UMass Amherst 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 biostatistics program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Biostatistics rankings. For our Best Overall Biostatistics School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
