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Biological & Biomedical Sciences at Colby College

Biological & Biomedical Sciences at Colby College

If you plan to study biological & biomedical sciences, take a look at what Colby College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Colby is located in Waterville, Maine and approximately 2,155 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Biological & Biomedical Sciences section at the bottom of this page.

Colby Biological & Biomedical Sciences Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Biological & Biomedical Sciences

Colby Biological & Biomedical Sciences Rankings

The biological & biomedical sciences major at Colby is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Biological & Biomedical Sciences. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Biological & Biomedical Sciences Student Demographics at Colby

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the biological & biomedical sciences majors at Colby College.

Colby Biological & Biomedical Sciences Bachelor’s Program

62% Women
26% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 38% of biological & biomedical sciences bachelor's degrees went to men and 62% went to women. The typical biological & biomedical sciences bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% men. So male students are more repesented at Colby since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

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About 60% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in biological & biomedical sciences at Colby are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Colby College with a bachelor's in biological & biomedical sciences.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 7
Black or African American 2
Hispanic or Latino 10
White 57
International Students 11
Other Races/Ethnicities 8

Concentrations Within Biological & Biomedical Sciences

The following biological & biomedical sciences concentations are available at Colby College. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Colby College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
General Biology 35
Neurobiology & Neurosciences 30
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology 5
Biomathematics & Bioinformatics 4

Careers That Biological & Biomedical Sciences Grads May Go Into

A degree in biological & biomedical sciences can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for ME, the home state for Colby College.

Occupation Jobs in ME Average Salary in ME
High School Teachers 5,790 $54,240
Software Applications Developers 2,270 $90,190
Computer Workers 890 $79,790
Natural Sciences Managers 300 $135,840

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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