346 PhD programmes in Biology in United States

The Graduate Program in Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University educates graduate students on the foundational areas of molecular, cellular, and organismal biology and provides in-depth training with faculty while engaging in state-of-the-art scholarly research.

Population Biology degree at University of California, Davis is an interdisciplinary field that uses concepts and techniques from ecology, evolution, systematics, genetics, and mathematics or statistics. 

The Department of Pathobiology at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign offers graduate programs leading to the degree of Master of Science. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Graduate Biology is a doctoral program. There is no Masters offered. 

The focus of the master's degree and Ph.D. programs in Biology - Cell and Molecular at The University of Toledo is to train graduate students for a wide range of scientific career opportunities in academia and industry. 

A multi-tiered menu of graduate courses allows students to broaden perspectives and delve deeply into chosen specializations. The Biological Sciences programme is offered at the Columbia University.

The Cancer Biology program from The University of Arizona allows students to focus their training in several related disciplines which have in common research faculty studying various aspects of cancer biology.  

The Computational and Systems Biology (CSB) program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) seeks to train a new breed of quantitative biologists who can take advantage of technologies at the leading edge of science and engineering to tackle fundamental and applied problems in biology.

Veterinary Clinical Sciences from Louisiana State University is designed to enhance competitiveness and scholarship. The objective of this program is to provide students with the tools to conduct original research in clinical sciences of small, large, and exotic animals.

The Grain Science Ph.D. degree offered through the Grain Science and Industry graduate program from Kansas State University, normally requires at least three years beyond the master’s degree. It is awarded to candidates who have demonstrated unique ability as scholars and researchers and proficiency in communication. 

New fields of scientific inquiry are emerging at a breathtaking pace. In the biological sciences, emphasis will be increasingly on quantitation and prediction of living systems—precisely the focus of biophysics. Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University is a discipline that sits at the interface between biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, computation, and engineering.

The Biology program from University of Missouri–St. Louis emphasizes empirical and theoretical approaches to biological research. Students are required to integrate basic skills in biology with focal studies in an emphasis area.

There are two degree tracks in the Biology PhD program from University of Houston, Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB) Degree Track and Ecology and Evolution Degree Track.

The mission of the Marine Biology and Ecology (MBE) PhD program at the University of Miami, is to train the next generation of scientists in the fundamental skills, knowledge, and practice of biology of the oceanic environment. 

The graduate program in Biophysics offered by the University at Buffalo is known for the excellence of its research faculty and flexibility of the program.

The Computational Cell Biology, Anatomy and Pathology PhD program from the University at Buffalo is a unique connector between the basic and clinical sciences.

The University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology (GST) is a unique and multidisciplinary program for full time graduate study leading to the Master of Science or Doctor of Philosophy degree.  The Life Sciences program is offered by the University of Tennessee Knoxville.

The Biology program from the University of Miami aims to train graduate students in integrative research, with a curriculum that exposes students to the major sub-disciplines of biology and a program that allows enough flexibility to develop interdisciplinary work. Our major strengths include developmental biology, global change biology, neuroscience, and species interactions.

The Biological Sciences program from Louisiana State University emphasizes modern interdisciplinary approaches to biology in areas such as bioinformatics, systematics, ecology, cell biology, and physiology; and also the traditional organism based approaches such as botany, microbiology and zoology.

The Joint Carnegie Mellon-University of Pittsburgh Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology (CPCB) provides interdisciplinary training in using quantitative and computational approaches to tackle scientific questions that lie at the interface of the life, physical, engineering, and computer sciences.