2025 Best Evolutionary Biology Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
81Evolutionary Biology Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in evolutionary biology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #501 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Evolutionary Biology Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 81 degrees in evolutionary biology to qualified students.
The evolutionary biology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Evolutionary Biology rankings. For our Best Overall Evolutionary Biology School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that 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.
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Best Schools for Evolutionary Biology in the Southwest 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 evolutionary biology degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Southwest Region Schools in Evolutionary Biology
Any student who is interested in evolutionary biology needs to check out University of Arizona. University of Arizona is a very large public university located in the large city of Tucson. A Best Colleges rank of #110 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means University of Arizona is a great university overall.
There were roughly 30 evolutionary biology students who graduated with this degree at University of Arizona in the most recent data year.
Northern Arizona University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in evolutionary biology. NAU is a very large public university located in the small city of Flagstaff. This university ranks 7th out of 26 schools for overall quality in the state of Arizona.
There were approximately 2 evolutionary biology students who graduated with this degree at NAU in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat The University of Texas at El Paso if you wish to pursue a degree in evolutionary biology. UTEP is a very large public university located in the city of El Paso. This university ranks 49th out of 115 colleges for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were about 6 evolutionary biology students who graduated with this degree at UTEP in the most recent year we have data available.
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 evolutionary biology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Evolutionary Biology rankings. For our Best Overall Evolutionary Biology School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
