2024 Best Colleges for Human Biology

SUMMARY

Going to school for Human Biology is not only a valuable choice, but naturally a mandatory first step for scholars wishing to begin a career as an anesthesiologist, a biological anthropologist, or a surgeon. Interestingly, nationally, human biology is an uncommon degree being the 179th most popular degree. Last year, there were 1,446 human biology diplomas received. In-state tuition for human biology at private institutions is, on average, 4.9 times more spendy than their public counterparts.

With just 26 institutions having programs for human biology there could be limited options as to the institutions which will have a degree program for you. If you are looking to surround yourself with other human biology undergrads, consider looking at institutions in California which have more undergrads admitted to human biology than any other state. Zooming out, the top region to pursue human biology is in the Far West region with University of Southern California, University of Washington-Seattle Campus, and Stanford University best representing the region. Interestingly, our pick for the best conference to study human biology is the Pacific-12 Conference with University of Southern California, University of Washington-Seattle Campus, and Stanford University representing the conference. From our list on the best colleges, our choice for the best university for human biology is Stanford University.

The objectively 'best' school does not have to be the 'best' school for you. There can be lots more angels to weigh when selecting school. Features like campus amenities, transportation services, and food might definitely refashion your decision of which university to attend. At authority.org, we evaluated the pros and cons for you. If, for example, you are intrigued by which human biology school is home to the top college campus, the answer is Stanford University. If, for example, you are very interested in which college boasts the best campus, we have an entire list dedicated to that. We have carefully pored through professor reviews, student reviews, government databases, and more in order to compare every U.S. major in an unbiased and informative way. Here you can explore our well researched list for the colleges with the best student life&nbspand, from that list, our pick for the school with the best student life for human biology is Scripps College. Curious why? Keep reading to find out more about Authority's top choices. Some of our picks might surprise you.

If cost is a significant influence in your decision on where to go to school, you might consider avoiding University of Southern California. University of Southern California&nbspappears to be our most expensive university for human biology, at least regarding out of state enrollment. We do have an entire page for the most expensive&nbspcolleges that could put the expense at University of Southern California&nbspinto perspective. You may also be interested to know that human biology is the 76th most expensive program in the nation, with an average cost of $41,200. On a broader scale, the most expensive state for human biology in the nation is Rhode Island with expenses at the main university, Brown University, of $57,112. Even more broadly, the most expensive region for human biology is the Far West region which is best demonstrated with Pitzer College with a cost of $55,734, Scripps College with a cost of $56,970, and University of Southern California with a cost of $57,256.

Our cheapest region for human biology is the Great Lakes region which is represented by Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis with a cost of $29,589 and University of Wisconsin-Green Bay with a cost of $14,516. More optimistically, the most affordable university for human biology is University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Our entire list of the most affordable universities can be found here.

In-state learners can anticipate paying in the neighborhood of $10,600 for a degree in human biology. The cost inflates intensely to a median of $30,300 for the out-of-state public-school undergrad. Our pick for the university constituting the best value for human biology: Stanford University. Through this link you will find our comprehensive list about the universities we see as being the best value&nbspoverall. With that said, this idea is predicated on the assumption that you are an out-of-state student. A discussion of value changes when in-state tuition costs are considered, as such, we are using out-of-state tuition as the baseline.

Earnings for human biology students vary widely, but two years after leaving college graduates will often make around $59,100. There is much variation in salary; highest paid earners can enjoy pay up to $122,600. Even right out of university, the lowest earning positions within the human biology field earn $28,100, which is an alright wage. The top earning graduates for human biology attended Stanford University&nbspand if you are looking for schools with all of the highest earning graduates, we have that too.

The overall diversity of human biology ranks very near the top, being within the 94th percentile of all majors. The college with the most composite diversity for human biology is Brown University&nbspand here you can find our general list for the colleges with the most diversity. The financial diversity of the Human Biology major sits only within the 87th percentile compared to all other majors. Racial diversity is actually above financial diversity, in the 96th percentile. White collegians make up the largest proportion, 44%, of those studying human biology. Additionally, 72% of scholars pursuing a human biology degree are women.

The median ranking for human biology professors is 4.8 stars, a score which is 20% higher than the median for every major; this is a remarkably good score. If you want to find the most popular human biology professor nationally, look no further than Kelly Bost at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It might come as a surprise, but the highest ranked instructors for human biology by student are at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. If we consider data other than just rankings it becomes clear that the school possessing comprehensively the best professors for human biology is Stanford University. You can find an explanation of our ever evolving ranking methodology of the best overall professors here, along with some of the finest examples of instructors in the U.S.

Finally, the hardest school to get into for human biology is Stanford University. While we think of this list more as a novelty, we do have a comprehensive page of the hardest colleges to get into. With that said, we do hope you believe that looking at university from context mainly shaped by superlatives could be said to be the root of many of higher education's fundamental problems. We hope you look at some of our other pages on different schools and explore a few of our background pages on beneficial details to consider as you progress with your college search.