2025 Best Biology Education Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
8Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
201Biology Teacher Education Degrees Awarded
Biology Education is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #467 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 8 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Biology Education Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 201 degrees in biology education annually.
The biology teacher education program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Biology Education rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for biology education schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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Best Schools for Biology Education in the Rocky Mountains Region
The schools below may not offer all types of biology teacher education degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools in Biology Teacher Education
Western Governors University is a great option for students interested in a degree in biology education. Located in the suburb of Salt Lake City, WGU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #66 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means WGU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 165 biology education students who graduated with this degree at WGU in the most recent year we have data available.
Utah State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in biology education. USU is a very large public university located in the city of Logan. A Best Colleges rank of #503 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means USU is a great university overall.
There were about 3 biology education students who graduated with this degree at USU in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in biology education needs to check out University of Wyoming. Located in the town of Laramie, UW is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 1st out of 7 schools for overall quality in the state of Wyoming.
There were about 4 biology education students who graduated with this degree at UW in the most recent year we have data available.
Brigham Young University - Provo is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in biology education. Located in the medium-sized city of Provo, BYU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #257 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means BYU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 10 biology education students who graduated with this degree at BYU in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the small city of Ogden, WSU is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #389 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means WSU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 2 biology education students who graduated with this degree at WSU in the most recent data year.
Located in the remote town of Cedar City, Southern Utah University is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 9th out of 11 colleges for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were about 4 biology education students who graduated with this degree at Southern Utah University in the most recent data year.
BYU - I is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the town of Rexburg. This university ranks 5th out of 10 schools for overall quality in the state of Idaho.
There were about 11 biology education students who graduated with this degree at BYU - I in the most recent data year.
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).