Suggested Programs for Biology Students

Biology students need to plan more than students in most other majors, and many students need to take pre-med requirements. While Natural Sciences students may easily take care of humanities, arts, and social science elective abroad, there are programs that might help take care of preparatory and major requirements. Here are suggested programs for different students:

Physics for Biology | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Human Biology

QS World University Rankings for Biology 2015

Physics for Biology

Science & Engineering Summer School, Univ. College Dublin

Knock out PHYS 18 & PHYS 19 over the summer with pre-approved course substitutes while spending the summer abroad.

Science Summer School, Univ. of Glasgow

Knock out PHYS 18 & PHYS 19 over the summer with pre-approved course substitutes while spending the summer abroad.

International Summer School, Univ. of Sussex

Knock out PHYS 18 & PHYS 19 over the summer with pre-approved course substitutes while spending the summer abroad.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Marine Biology & Terrestrial Ecology, Univ. of Queensland

Study diverse marine ecosystems in this research-focused program with courses in marine science and terrestrial ecology counting toward upper-division ESS and BIO with fieldwork. This program includes research coursework at a field station in the Great Barrier Reef.

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Tropical Biology & Conservation, Monteverde Institute

Tromp around the jungle, do serious undergraduate research, and study in the field with this unique program where you can take upper-division electives like tropical/biodiversity (BIO 143), community ecology (BIO 145), or coursework that falls under environmental science and sustainability. This program includes fieldwork in the Costa Rican cloud forests.

Human Biology

Univ. of Hong Kong

Take courses to substitute BIO 101 (Biochemistry), 141 (Evolution), molecular medicine/cancer genetics, endocrinology, bioinformatics, or microbiology along with many other upper-division biology electives.

Univ. of Edinburgh

Work on courses in Scotland to take care of BIO 161 (Human Physiology), 141 (Evolution), or electives like cancer biology, biostatics, neurobiology, developmental biology, or a wide selection of additional upper-division electives.

McGill Univ.

Take on courses to substitute BIO 101 (Biochemistry), 140 (Genetics), 120 & 120L (Microbiology), or a selection of upper-division electives like biophysics or neurobiology.

QS World University Rankings for Biology 2015

Rank Institution UCEAP Score
1 Harvard Univ., USA   97.4
2 Univ. of Cambridge, UK ✔ 94.8
3 Univ. of Oxford, UK   93.9
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA   92.4
5 Stanford Univ., USA   90.5
6 California Institute of Technology, USA   88.5
7 Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA   88.4
8 National Univ. of Singapore ✔ 87.9
9 Yale Univ., USA   86.8
10 ETH Zurich, Switzerland   86.7
11 Univ. of California, Los Angeles, USA   85.7
12 Cornell Univ., USA   85.6
12 Univ. of California, San Francisco, USA   85.6
14 Univ. of California, San Diego, USA   85.2
15 Imperial College London, UK ✔ 84.6
16 Kyoto Univ., Japan   84.3
17 Univ. College London, UK ✔ 83.6
17 Univ. of Toronto, Canada   83.6
19 Princeton Univ., USA   83.5
20 Columbia Univ., USA   82.5
20 Univ. of Tokyo, Japan ✔ 82.5
22 Johns Hopkins Univ., USA   82.3
22 Univ. of Edinburgh, UK ✔ 82.3
24 Univ. of Washington, USA   82.1
25 Duke Univ., USA   81.7
26 Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA   81.6
27 Univ. of Melbourne, Australia ✔ 81.2
28 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany   81.1
29 Univ. of California, Davis, USA   80.9
29 Univ. of Chicago, USA   80.9
31 Rockefeller Univ., USA   80.7
31 Univ. of Michigan, USA   80.7
33 Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA   80.0
34 McGill Univ., Canada ✔ 79.4
34 Washington Univ. in St. Louis, USA   79.4
36 Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark ✔ 79.3
37 Univ. of Queensland, Australia ✔ 79.1
38 Osaka Univ., Japan ✔ 78.7
39 Univ. of British Columbia, Canada ✔ 78.5
40 Karolinska Institutet, Sweden   78.4
41 Technical Univ. of Munich, Germany   78.2
42 Univ. of Helsinki, Finland   78.0
43 Australian National Univ. ✔ 77.3
44 Kings College London, UK ✔ 77.2
44 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany   77.2
46 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland   77.1
47 Uppsala Univ., Sweden   76.7
48 Trinity College Dublin, Ireland ✔ 76.5
49 Univ. of Manchester, UK ✔ 76.2
50 New York Univ., USA   76.1