2025 Best Evolutionary Biology Doctor's Degree Schools in Michigan

If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in evolutionary biology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #160 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Evolutionary Biology Doctor's Degree Schools in Michigan ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 24 doctor's degrees in evolutionary biology during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to evolutionary biology students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of evolutionary biology students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized evolutionary biology related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for evolutionary biology students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The evolutionary biology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Evolutionary Biology Doctor's Degree Schools in Michigan.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Evolutionary Biology in Michigan

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in evolutionary biology.

Top Michigan Schools for a Doctorate in Evolutionary Biology

1

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

10 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in evolutionary biology needs to check out University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Located in the midsize city of Ann Arbor, U-M is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in evolutionary biology from University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

2

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

14 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in evolutionary biology has to look into Michigan State University. Michigan State is a very large public university located in the small city of East Lansing.More information about a doctorate in evolutionary biology from Michigan State University

Best Evolutionary Biology Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Evolutionary Biology Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Illinois	273	3
Ohio	253	2
Indiana	202	6

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Rankings in Majors Related to Evolutionary Biology

One of 12 majors within the Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology area of study, Evolutionary Biology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Epidemiology	19

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Ernst Haeckel. More about our data sources and methodologies.