2024 Best Oncology & Cancer Biology Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
2Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
36Oncology and Cancer Biology Degrees Awarded
Oncology & Cancer Biology is about average in terms of popularity for degree programs. That is, it ranks #874 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.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for oncology & cancer biology students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 36 degrees in oncology & cancer biology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Oncology & Cancer Biology Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Oncology & Cancer Biology in the Middle Atlantic Region
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 oncology and cancer biology degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools in Oncology and Cancer Biology
Any student pursuing a degree in oncology & cancer biology needs to check out Georgetown University. Georgetown is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Washington. A Best Colleges rank of #15 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Georgetown is a great university overall.
There were roughly 17 oncology & cancer biology students who graduated with this degree at Georgetown in the most recent year we have data available.
It's difficult to beat University at Buffalo if you want to pursue a degree in oncology & cancer biology. University at Buffalo is a very large public university located in the suburb of Buffalo. This university ranks 23rd out of 142 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were roughly 11 oncology & cancer biology students who graduated with this degree at University at Buffalo in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in oncology & cancer biology has to take a look at Drexel University. Drexel is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Philadelphia. This university ranks 10th out of 109 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were roughly 4 oncology & cancer biology students who graduated with this degree at Drexel 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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