Biological & Biomedical Sciences at SUNY Old Westbury

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

SUNY Old Westbury is located in Old Westbury, New York and has a total student population of 5,007.

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.

SUNY Old Westbury Biological & Biomedical Sciences Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Biological & Biomedical Sciences

SUNY Old Westbury Biological & Biomedical Sciences Rankings

The biological & biomedical sciences major at SUNY Old Westbury 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 SUNY Old Westbury

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the biological & biomedical sciences majors at SUNY Old Westbury.

SUNY Old Westbury Biological & Biomedical Sciences Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 41% of biological & biomedical sciences bachelor's degrees went to men and 59% 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 SUNY Old Westbury since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 41% more racial-ethnic minorities in its biological & biomedical sciences bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	20
Black or African American	21
Hispanic or Latino	16
White	7
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Concentrations Within Biological & Biomedical Sciences

If you plan to be a biological & biomedical sciences major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at SUNY Old Westbury. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Biology	80
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	4

Related Majors

• Physical Sciences
• Mathematics & Statistics

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 NY, the home state for SUNY Old Westbury.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
High School Teachers	74,830	$85,300
Software Applications Developers	52,640	$116,830
Health Specialties Professors	22,170	$127,230
Medical Scientists	9,500	$95,170
Biological Science Professors	4,590	$102,800

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 crz4mets2 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.