General Biology is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #5 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Delaware to determine which ones were the best for general biology students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 272 degrees in general biology annually.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Biology Schools in Delaware ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of biology degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It is difficult to beat University of Delaware if you want to pursue a degree in general biology. Located in the large suburb of Newark, UD is a public university with a very large student population.
Degree recipients from the general biology program at University of Delaware get $5,933 more than the average graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.
Delaware State University is a great decision for students interested in a degree in general biology. Del State is a moderately-sized public university located in the city of Dover.
General Biology degree recipients from Delaware State University get an earnings boost of about $5,514 over the average income of general biology graduates.
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).