World's Best Universities
Biological Sciences
Students earning a biological sciences degree can specialize in fields such as cell or molecular biology. After graduation, students may become laboratory technicians, conservationists, and technical writers. These are the world's top universities for biological sciences. See the methodology.
| Rank | School | Overall Score | Academic Reputation Score | Employer Reputation Score | Citations per Paper Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #20 |
Johns Hopkins University
United States |
77.6 | 79.4 | 76.4 | 76.3 |
| #23 |
University of Toronto
Canada |
76.6 | 79.4 | 87.3 | 72.2 |
| #39 |
University of California, Davis (UCD)
United States |
73.9 | 79.8 | 79.8 | 68.0 |
| #32 |
UCL (University College London)
United Kingdom |
75.0 | 80.6 | 89.0 | 67.8 |
| #22 |
Osaka University
Japan |
76.7 | 80.7 | 83.2 | 72.2 |
| #13 |
Princeton University
United States |
80.0 | 81.4 | 88.3 | 77.2 |
| #31 |
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore |
75.2 | 81.5 | 88.7 | 67.4 |
| #28 |
University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom |
75.5 | 82.3 | 83.7 | 68.5 |
| #16 |
University of California, San Francisco
United States |
79.7 | 83.2 | 58.7 | 81.0 |
| #10 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States |
81.1 | 84.0 | 62.9 | 82.5 |
| #18 |
Kyoto University
Japan |
77.9 | 84.3 | 78.8 | 72.5 |
| #15 | 79.8 | 85.1 | 81.2 | 75.2 | |
| #9 |
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
United States |
81.2 | 85.7 | 71.8 | 79.4 |
| #11 |
Cornell University
United States |
80.3 | 85.8 | 89.4 | 74.0 |
| #8 |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States |
81.5 | 86.1 | 85.4 | 77.0 |
| #24 |
University of Melbourne
Australia |
76.5 | 86.4 | 95.5 | 64.8 |
| #7 |
Yale University
United States |
84.0 | 87.6 | 90.5 | 79.9 |
| #12 |
Imperial College London
United Kingdom |
80.2 | 88.4 | 90.6 | 71.6 |
| #17 |
The University of Tokyo
Japan |
78.8 | 90.9 | 93.5 | 66.1 |
| #4 |
Stanford University
United States |
85.6 | 91.2 | 94.6 | 79.4 |
| #2 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
91.2 | 94.1 | 91.9 | 88.7 |
| #6 |
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States |
84.3 | 94.7 | 86.5 | 75.6 |
| #5 |
University of Oxford
United Kingdom |
84.9 | 96.0 | 96.5 | 73.6 |
| #3 |
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom |
87.7 | 98.3 | 100.0 | 76.8 |
| #1 |
Harvard University
United States |
93.0 | 100.0 | 98.9 | 86.3 |
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