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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 Grand Valley State University 14 0% $24,948
18 Drexel University 14 0% $70,223
19 University of Iowa 12 0% $24,239
20 California State University-East Bay 12 0% $25,143
21 University of Pennsylvania 12 0% $74,408
22 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 12 0% $33,503
23 George Washington University 11 0% $71,930
24 The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston 11 1% N/A
25 Saint Louis University 10 0% $61,018
26 Washington University in St Louis 10 0% $74,361
27 Western Michigan University 10 0% $26,009
28 University of California-Los Angeles 10 0% $34,620
29 University of Missouri-Kansas City 9 0% $24,116
30 University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences 9 2% N/A
31 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 9 0% $27,638
32 University at Buffalo 9 0% $27,758
33 Oregon Health & Science University 8 1% N/A
34 Northwestern University 8 0% $74,649
35 University of North Texas Health Science Center 8 2% N/A
36 Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis 8 0% $22,537
37 Florida State University 7 0% $22,168
38 Michigan State University 7 0% $28,862
39 Texas A & M University-College Station 7 0% $29,506
40 University of Utah 7 0% $24,472
41 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 7 0% $30,913
42 University of California-Berkeley 7 0% $38,066
43 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus 7 0% $27,476
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 Simmons University 4 0% $59,880
50 Virginia Commonwealth University 4 0% $32,041
51 University of Vermont 4 0% $34,210
52 University of South Carolina-Columbia 3 0% $28,301
53 University of Louisville 3 0% $27,980
54 Loma Linda University 3 0% N/A
55 University of Alabama at Birmingham 3 0% $26,336
56 University of Miami 3 0% $68,460
57 University of Arizona 3 0% $29,217
58 University of Georgia 3 0% $26,688
59 University of Kansas 3 0% $26,566
60 Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans 3 1% N/A
61 East Tennessee State University 3 0% $24,068
62 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 3 2% N/A
63 Portland State University 3 0% $26,085
64 George Mason University 2 0% $30,284
65 University of Southern California 2 0% $74,825
66 University of Rochester 2 0% $72,721
67 Emmanuel College 2 0% $58,153
68 University of California-San Diego 1 0% $32,838
69 University of the Sciences 1 0% $45,638
70 Brigham Young University-Provo 1 0% $18,776
71 Brigham Young University-Idaho 1 0% $12,050
72 University of Scranton 1 0% $62,686
73 American University 1 0% $66,268

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.