Highest Job Growth Master's Biology Programs

These are the highest job growth master's biology programs, ranked by projected career job growth. The ranking includes 50 programs, with Columbia University in the City of New York leading at 14%.

Rank Institution State Growth Completers
1 Columbia University in the City of New York NY 14% 190
2 New York University NY 14% 133
3 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor MI 14% 128
4 Boston University MA 14% 122
5 Harvard University MA 14% 72
6 Duke University NC 14% 65
7 Northeastern University MA 14% 62
8 University of Southern California CA 14% 49
9 Emory University GA 14% 46
10 Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus GA 14% 44
11 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities MN 14% 44
12 George Washington University DC 14% 40
13 Carnegie Mellon University PA 14% 39
14 University of Chicago IL 14% 33
15 Arizona State University Digital Immersion AZ 14% 33
16 Yale University CT 14% 31
17 University of California-Los Angeles CA 14% 30
18 Grand Valley State University MI 14% 30
19 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC 14% 29
20 Georgetown University DC 14% 27
21 Indiana University-Indianapolis IN 14% 27
22 University of Florida FL 14% 26
23 University of North Carolina at Charlotte NC 14% 26
24 Arizona State University Campus Immersion AZ 14% 25
25 University of Missouri-Kansas City MO 14% 25
26 University of Washington-Seattle Campus WA 14% 23
27 Brown University RI 14% 22
28 Johns Hopkins University MD 14% 18
29 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus PA 14% 18
30 Rutgers University-New Brunswick NJ 14% 17
31 George Mason University VA 14% 17
32 Northwestern University IL 14% 16
33 The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston TX 14% 15
34 Washington University in St Louis MO 14% 14
35 Loyola University Chicago IL 14% 13
36 University of Iowa IA 14% 13
37 Saint Louis University MO 14% 13
38 University of California-San Diego CA 14% 12
39 University of Louisville KY 14% 11
40 Weill Medical College of Cornell University NY 14% 11
41 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus OH 14% 11
42 Virginia Commonwealth University VA 14% 11
43 San Jose State University CA 14% 10
44 Rutgers University-Camden NJ 14% 10
45 Oregon Health & Science University OR 14% 10
46 University of Pennsylvania PA 14% 10
47 Vanderbilt University TN 14% 10
48 University of California-Santa Cruz CA 14% 9
49 University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus CO 14% 9
50 University of South Florida FL 14% 9

Methodology

Programs ranked by average projected job growth rate across related occupations (via CIP-SOC crosswalk). Only includes master's programs with at least 10 completers and matched BLS occupation data. Data from the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook and College Scorecard.