Biotechnology at Harvard University

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

Harvard is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and approximately 30,391 students attend the school each year.

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

Harvard Biotechnology Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Biotech
• Doctorate Degree in Biotech

Online Classes Are Available at Harvard

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Harvard offers distance education options for biotech at the following degree levels:

Harvard Biotechnology Rankings

There were 6 students who received their doctoral degrees in biotech, making the school the #1 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Biotech Student Demographics at Harvard

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the biotech majors at Harvard University.

Harvard Biotechnology Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 33% of biotech master's degrees went to men and 67% went to women.

In the biotech master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 67% of degree recipients. That is 24% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Harvard University with a master's in biotech.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Related Majors

• Genetics
• Biological & Biomedical Sciences (Other)
• Microbiological Sciences & Immunology
• Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology
• General Biology

Careers That Biotech Grads May Go Into

A degree in biotech can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MA, the home state for Harvard University.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Biological Scientists	4,470	$84,790
Natural Sciences Managers	4,040	$183,490
Biological Science Professors	2,220	$112,390

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 Elisa.rolle under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.