by our College Data Analytics TeamStudents interested in biostatistics, take a look at other closely related fields of study. Below you will find majors with similar career paths, related concentrations and specializations, and the most popular similar majors, ranked by annual graduates.
Programs here prepare graduates for occupations that overlap with those of biostatistics, based on the NCES CIP-to-SOC career crosswalk. Sorted by the number of shared occupations.
| Similar Major | Shared Careers | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Microbiology and Bacteriology | 5 | 961 |
| Anatomy | 4 | 902 |
| Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology | 4 | 4,488 |
| Cell/Cellular Biology and Histology | 4 | 486 |
| Epidemiology and Biostatistics | 4 | 151 |
| Microbiology and Immunology | 4 | 443 |
| Molecular Biology | 4 | 1,255 |
| Pharmacology | 4 | 483 |
| Toxicology | 4 | 152 |
| Applied Mathematics, General | 3 | 4,209 |
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Bioinformatics | 1,336 |
| Computational Biology | 321 |
| Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Other | 250 |
| Biometry/Biometrics | 185 |
Part of the broader field of Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, biostatistics connects to the wider programs in that field.
More about our data sources and methodologies.