2025 Best Biology Studies Associate Degree Schools
19Colleges in the United States
7,513Associate Degrees
Biology Studies is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #13 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 19 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for biology studies students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 7,513 associate degrees in biology studies to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Biology Studies School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of biology studies for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on biology studies students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other biology studies students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized biology studies related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for biology studies students working on their associate degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Biology Studies Associate Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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.