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Most Popular Schools for Biostatistics Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on the application of descriptive and inferential statistics to biomedical research and clinical, public health, and industrial issues related to human populations. Includes instruction in mathematical statistics, modeling, clinical trials methodology, disease and survival analysis, longitudinal analysis, missing data analysis, spatial analysis, computer tomography, biostatistics consulting, and applications to such topics as genetics, oncology, pharmacokinetics, physiology, neurobiology, and biophysics.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Columbia University in the City of New York 115 1% $76,856
2 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 49 0% $30,298
3 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 37 1% $23,811
4 Emory University 30 1% $69,502
5 Harvard University 28 0% $71,650
6 Duke University 28 1% $74,339
7 Georgetown University 25 0% $73,840
8 Boston University 23 0% $72,618
9 Tulane University of Louisiana 22 1% $72,296
10 University of Connecticut 21 0% $32,404
11 Brown University 20 1% $73,802
12 Johns Hopkins University 18 0% $71,901
13 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 17 0% $27,898
14 Rutgers University-New Brunswick 16 0% $32,443
15 University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus 15 0% $29,357
16 University of Florida 15 0% $21,211
17 Drexel University 14 0% $70,223
18 Grand Valley State University 14 0% $24,948
19 University of Iowa 12 0% $24,239
20 University of Pennsylvania 12 0% $74,408
21 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 12 0% $33,503
22 California State University-East Bay 12 0% $25,143
23 George Washington University 11 0% $71,930
24 The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston 11 1% N/A
25 Western Michigan University 10 0% $26,009
26 University of California-Los Angeles 10 0% $34,620
27 Saint Louis University 10 0% $61,018
28 Washington University in St Louis 10 0% $74,361
29 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 9 0% $27,638
30 University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences 9 2% N/A
31 University of Missouri-Kansas City 9 0% $24,116
32 University at Buffalo 9 0% $27,758
33 Northwestern University 8 0% $74,649
34 Oregon Health & Science University 8 1% N/A
35 University of North Texas Health Science Center 8 2% N/A
36 Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis 8 0% $22,537
37 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus 7 0% $27,476
38 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 7 0% $30,913
39 University of Utah 7 0% $24,472
40 Michigan State University 7 0% $28,862
41 University of California-Berkeley 7 0% $38,066
42 Florida State University 7 0% $22,168
43 Texas A & M University-College Station 7 0% $29,506
44 University of Toledo 6 0% $28,423
45 University of California-Davis 6 0% $35,177
46 New Jersey Institute of Technology 5 0% $37,738
47 University of Kentucky 5 0% $30,101
48 Vanderbilt University 4 0% $70,146
49 University of Vermont 4 0% $34,210
50 Virginia Commonwealth University 4 0% $32,041
51 Simmons University 4 0% $59,880
52 East Tennessee State University 3 0% $24,068
53 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 3 2% N/A
54 University of Arizona 3 0% $29,217
55 Portland State University 3 0% $26,085
56 University of Kansas 3 0% $26,566
57 Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans 3 1% N/A
58 University of Alabama at Birmingham 3 0% $26,336
59 University of Louisville 3 0% $27,980
60 Loma Linda University 3 0% N/A
61 University of Miami 3 0% $68,460
62 University of Georgia 3 0% $26,688
63 University of South Carolina-Columbia 3 0% $28,301
64 Emmanuel College 2 0% $58,153
65 University of Rochester 2 0% $72,721
66 George Mason University 2 0% $30,284
67 University of Southern California 2 0% $74,825
68 Brigham Young University-Idaho 1 0% $12,050
69 American University 1 0% $66,268
70 Brigham Young University-Provo 1 0% $18,776
71 University of the Sciences 1 0% $45,638
72 University of California-San Diego 1 0% $32,838
73 University of Scranton 1 0% $62,686

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Biostatistics program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.