Where can your student actually get into biology?

At a glance · All states

• 978 colleges nationwide report a bachelor's biology program in federal outcome data or a biology admit rate in the UC/CSU data.
• Hardest reported gate: University of California-Los Angeles — Biology, Fall 2025: 9,026 applied, 993 admitted (11%).
• Highest reported admit rate into the program: California State University-Monterey Bay — 98.2% (2,091 applied, 2,054 admitted, Fall 2025).
• Highest median earnings four years after the degree: Carlow University, $134,677.
• Lowest average net price with aid: CUNY Hunter College, $2,984 per year.

Every California public campus that reports a biology number reports it for first-year applicants, so this is not a major where a freshman has to enter as a pre-major and apply into the program later. A college with no row here is not an easier one; it means the system publishes no separate biology figure for it, and the campus rate is all that is public. Admits are not enrollees. At most UC programs students are admitted to the campus, not the major. This page as JSON → · Back to the 58 California colleges →

Every college, one row each

Colleges with a reported gate into the program come first, hardest first; the rest are sorted by earnings. Program admit rate is the college system's own number for this major (UC Information Center, CSU Chancellor's Office). Net price is the average paid by aid recipients; full price is the cost of attendance. Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians four years after the degree.