2024 Best Computational Biology Schools in the New England Region
3Colleges in the New England Region
57Computational Biology Degrees Awarded
Computational Biology is about average in terms of popularity for degree programs. That is, it ranks #797 out of the 1506 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of computational biology. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 57 degrees in computational biology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The computational biology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Computational Biology rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for computational biology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each 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.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Computational Biology Schools in the New England Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Computational Biology in the New England Region
The schools below may not offer all types of computational biology degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top New England Region Schools in Computational Biology
Harvard University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in computational biology. Located in the midsize city of Cambridge, Harvard is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were roughly 8 computational biology students who graduated with this degree at Harvard in the most recent year we have data available.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a wonderful option for students pursuing a degree in computational biology. MIT is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Cambridge. A Best Colleges rank of #1 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means MIT is a great school overall.
There were about 29 computational biology students who graduated with this degree at MIT in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat Brown University if you wish to pursue a degree in computational biology. Brown is a large private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Providence. This university ranks 1st out of 9 schools for overall quality in the state of Rhode Island.
There were about 16 computational biology students who graduated with this degree at Brown 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 computational biology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Computational Biology rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for computational biology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
