Computational Biology at University of Southern California

If you are interested in studying computational biology, you may want to check out the program at University of Southern California. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

USC is located in Los Angeles, California and approximately 46,287 students attend the school each year.

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

USC Computational Biology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computational Biology
• Master’s Degree in Computational Biology

USC Computational Biology Rankings

The computational biology major at USC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Computational 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.

There were 3 students who received their doctoral degrees in computational biology, making the school the #9 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Computational Biology Student Demographics at USC

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

USC Computational Biology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 28% of computational biology bachelor's degrees went to men and 72% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 30% more racial-ethnic minorities in its computational 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 Southern California with a bachelor's in computational biology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	9
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	3
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

USC Computational Biology Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 75% of computational biology master's degrees went to men and 25% went to women.

In the computational biology master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 63% of degree recipients. That is 26% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Southern California with a master's in computational biology.

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

Related Majors

• Biomathematics
• Biostatistics
• Bioinformatics

Careers That Computational Biology Grads May Go Into

A degree in computational 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 Southern California.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Computer Workers	74,690	$103,270
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 Original uploader was Padsquad19 at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.