General Biology at Pomona College

If you are interested in studying general biology, you may want to check out the program at Pomona College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Pomona is located in Claremont, California and has a total student population of 1,475. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 13 students received a bachelor's degree in biology from Pomona.

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.

Pomona General Biology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Biology

Pomona General Biology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the biology progam at Pomona compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The biology major at Pomona 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 Bachelor’s Degree Schools	671
Most Focused General Biology Schools	777
Most Popular General Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	1,029
Most Popular General Biology Schools	1,207

Biology Student Demographics at Pomona

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

Pomona General Biology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 13 students who earned a bachelor's degree in General Biology from Pomona in 2020-2021, 38% were men and 62% were women. The typical biology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 33% men. So male students are more repesented at Pomona since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 15% more racial-ethnic minorities in its biology bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Pomona College with a bachelor's in biology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

• Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology
• Neurobiology & Neurosciences

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 CA, the home state for Pomona College.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
High School Teachers	112,960	$80,510
Medical Scientists	26,080	$102,550
Biological Scientists	11,010	$91,340
Natural Sciences Managers	7,870	$168,790
Biological Science Professors	4,360	$128,370

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 Nostalgicwisdom under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.