2025 Best Biological Engineering Schools in California
2Colleges in California
54Biological Engineering Degrees Awarded
$58,507Avg Early-Career Salary
Biological Engineering degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #288 out of the 395 majors we look at each year. This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Biological Engineering Schools in California ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 54 degrees in biological engineering annually.
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Best Schools for Biological Engineering in California
The schools below may not offer all types of biological engineering 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 California - San Diego if you want to pursue a degree in biological engineering. Located in the large city of La Jolla, UCSD is a public university with a very large student population.
Degree recipients from the biological engineering major at University of California - San Diego earn $8,509 above the typical college grad in this field shortly after graduation.
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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