General Biology at University of California - Santa Barbara

If you plan to study general biology, take a look at what University of California - Santa Barbara has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UCSB is located in Santa Barbara, California and approximately 26,179 students attend the school each year. Of the 7,001 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of California - Santa Barbara in 2021, 377 of them were general biology majors.

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.

UCSB General Biology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Biology

UCSB General Biology Rankings

The biology major at UCSB 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.

Earnings of UCSB Biology Graduates

The median salary of biology students who receive their bachelor's degree at UCSB is $30,350. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 11% higher than the national average of $27,253 for all biology bachelor's degree recipients.

Biology Student Demographics at UCSB

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the biology majors at University of California - Santa Barbara.

UCSB General Biology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 377 students who earned a bachelor's degree in General Biology from UCSB in 2020-2021, 40% were men and 60% were women. The typical biology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 33% men. So male students are more repesented at UCSB since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 14% 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 University of California - Santa Barbara with a bachelor's in biology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	107
Black or African American	13
Hispanic or Latino	72
White	135
International Students	7
Other Races/Ethnicities	43

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

Related Majors

• Neurobiology & Neurosciences
• Physiology & Pathology Sciences
• Zoology
• Microbiological Sciences & Immunology
• Pharmacology & Toxicology

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 University of California - Santa Barbara.

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 Nandaro under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.