Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University

If you are interested in studying biophysics, you may want to check out the program at Johns Hopkins University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Johns Hopkins is located in Baltimore, Maryland and has a total student population of 28,890.

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

Johns Hopkins Biophysics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Biophysics
• Master’s Degree in Biophysics

Johns Hopkins Biophysics Rankings

The biophysics major at Johns Hopkins is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Biophysics. 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.

Biophysics Student Demographics at Johns Hopkins

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the biophysics majors at Johns Hopkins University.

Johns Hopkins Biophysics Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 55% of biophysics bachelor's degrees went to men and 45% went to women. The typical biophysics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% women. So female students are more repesented at Johns Hopkins since its program graduates 4% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 13% more racial-ethnic minorities in its biophysics bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a bachelor's in biophysics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	7
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	5
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Johns Hopkins Biophysics Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 0% of biophysics master's degrees went to men and 100% went to women.

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

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

Related Majors

• Molecular Biology
• Biochemistry

Careers That Biophysics Grads May Go Into

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

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Medical Scientists	5,010	$105,780
Natural Sciences Managers	3,370	$148,310
Biochemists and Biophysicists	970	$99,370
Biological Science Professors	760	$89,650

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 Lester Spence under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.