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2023 Most Popular Online General Biology Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

2 Colleges
$29,200 Avg Salary
$24,337 Avg Student Debt

In 2020-2021, 107,165 general biology students received a degree or certificate, making the major the #5 most popular in the country.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Most Popular Online General Biology Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to see which ones were the most popular online programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for biology majors pursuing an online .

#1

Excelsior College

Albany, NY

Our 2023 rankings named Excelsior College the most popular online school in the Middle Atlantic Region for general biology students. Located in the small city of Albany, Excelsior College is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

On average, biology graduates from Excelsior College take out $29,136 in student loans while working on their degree.

Full General Biology at Excelsior College Report

#2

New York University

New York, NY

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend New York University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Most Popular Online General Biology Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in the city of New York, NYU is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.

Biology majors at NYU take out an average of $17,500 in student loans while working on their egree. When it comes time to repay the loan, graduates who are on a 10-year repayment plan pay an average monthly payment of $529.

Read full report on General Biology at New York University

Explore the most popular online general biology schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic region.

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 4,681
New York 7,502
Maryland 1,848
New Jersey 3,103
District of Columbia 478
Delaware 279

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One of 14 majors within the area of study, general biology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology 14,535
Neurobiology & Neurosciences 11,615
Physiology & Pathology Sciences 8,813
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology 7,247
Cell Biology & Anatomical Sciences 6,206

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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