General Biology at Guilford College

If you plan to study general biology, take a look at what Guilford College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Guilford is located in Greensboro, North Carolina and approximately 1,429 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 27 students received a bachelor's degree in biology from Guilford.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in General Biology section at the bottom of this page.

Guilford General Biology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Biology

Guilford General Biology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks biology programs across the country. The following shows how Guilford performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The biology major at Guilford is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Biology. 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused General Biology Schools	173
	771
	785
Best General Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	817
Best Value General Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	849
Most Popular General Biology Schools	850

How Much Do Biology Graduates from Guilford Make?

The median salary of biology students who receive their bachelor's degree at Guilford is $20,753. This is less than $27,253, which is the national average of all biology majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Biology Student Demographics at Guilford

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the biology majors at Guilford College.

Guilford General Biology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 27 students who earned a bachelor's degree in General Biology from Guilford in 2020-2021, 41% were men and 59% were women. The typical biology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 33% men. So male students are more repesented at Guilford since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

About 63% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in biology at Guilford 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 Guilford College with a bachelor's in biology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	17
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Guilford also has a doctoral program available in biology. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Biological & Biomedical Sciences (Other)

Careers That Biology Grads May Go Into

A degree in biology can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NC, the home state for Guilford College.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
High School Teachers	25,240	$47,580
Medical Scientists	4,500	$98,740
Natural Sciences Managers	2,960	$153,490
Biological Science Professors	1,990	$76,320
Biological Scientists	1,070	$83,380

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Parkram412 at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.