You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brown University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Evolutionary Biology Major in Rhode Island for a Doctorate. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 7 degrees to qualified doctorate’s evolutionary biology students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.