2023 Most Well Attended Population Biology Major

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Population Biology is the 1371st most popular major in the country with 15 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Population Biology Major” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in population biology. To top this list, a school must have a successful population biology program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Population Biology Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for population biology students.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Population Biology

1

University of California - Davis
Davis, California

$46,065 Average Early-Career Earnings

$14,114 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of California - Davis. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Population Biology Major. UC Davis is a large school located in Davis, California that handed out 3 ’s population biology degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UC Davis Population Biology Report

2

Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas

$40,351 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,636 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Population Biology Major. Texas State is a large school located in San Marcos, Texas that handed out 2 ’s population biology degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Population Biology at Texas State University

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Ernst Haeckel.