Highest Earning Doctoral Biology Programs

These are the highest earning doctoral biology programs, ranked by median earnings. The ranking includes 42 programs, with Massachusetts Institute of Technology leading at $189,144.

Rank	Institution	Program	State	Earnings	Completers
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Biology	MA	$189,144	32
2	Harvard University	Ecology	MA	$185,905	52
3	Johns Hopkins University	Biology	MD	$176,414	30
4	Harvard University	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	MA	$174,114	22
5	Rutgers University-New Brunswick	Biology	NJ	$157,286	26
6	Rutgers University-Newark	Biology	NJ	$157,286	8
7	University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	Biology	MA	$150,264	54
8	University of California-San Diego	Neuroscience	CA	$148,833	10
9	University of Pennsylvania	Cell Biology	PA	$139,980	56
10	University of California-Los Angeles	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	CA	$134,860	33
11	University of California-San Diego	Biology	CA	$129,900	63
12	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	WI	$126,758	40
13	Ohio State University-Main Campus	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	OH	$123,814	10
14	University of California-Berkeley	Cell Biology	CA	$123,231	27
15	Johns Hopkins University	Ecology	MD	$117,823	21
16	Northwestern University	Cell Biology	IL	$117,797	26
17	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	MI	$116,369	27
18	Duke University	Genetics	NC	$116,130	25
19	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Ecology	NC	$113,327	38
20	Purdue University-Main Campus	Biology	IN	$109,910	26
21	University of California-Davis	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	CA	$108,451	27
22	University of Florida	Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other	FL	$108,414	45
23	Johns Hopkins University	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	MD	$108,169	49
24	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Physiology	WI	$107,552	17
25	Harvard University	Biology	MA	$106,501	65
26	Emory University	Biology	GA	$105,042	73
27	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Genetics	NC	$101,128	15
28	University of Notre Dame	Biology	IN	$101,099	21
29	Vanderbilt University	Physiology	TN	$97,544	16
30	Colorado State University-Fort Collins	Ecology	CO	$96,987	15
31	University of California-San Francisco	Biology	CA	$96,962	23
32	University of Florida	Zoology	FL	$94,713	19
33	University of Missouri-Columbia	Biology	MO	$91,572	11
34	University of California-Irvine	Ecology	CA	$90,675	13
35	Vanderbilt University	Neuroscience	TN	$87,403	18
36	University of California-Davis	Ecology	CA	$85,764	42
37	Johns Hopkins University	Cell Biology	MD	$84,844	30
38	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	Zoology	NC	$80,719	10
39	Michigan State University	Ecology	MI	$76,183	22
40	Ohio State University-Main Campus	Biology	OH	$75,461	27
41	Texas A&M University-College Station	Biology	TX	$70,480	50
42	University of California-Santa Cruz	Ecology	CA	$70,373	14

Methodology

Programs ranked by highest earning. Only includes doctoral programs in CIP family 26 (Biology) with at least 10 completers. Data from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard.