The 50 colleges that score highest for Biochemistry on public federal data: selectivity, graduate earnings, program size, academic strength and graduate depth. It is a starting point for your research, not a judgment of quality.
50 colleges · each name links to its page, with sources · data snapshot October 2, 2026 · Updated October 2, 2026
How we rank programs · showing the top 50 of 50 core colleges ranked, those with enough graduates and earnings data · All top-programs lists
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| Rank | College | State | What we measured | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Pennsylvania | PA | Median earnings $72,923 (field-wide) · 80 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 2 | Yale University | CT | Median earnings $92,646 (field-wide) · 46 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 3 | University of California-Los Angeles | CA | Median earnings $73,506 · 200 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 4 | Johns Hopkins University | MD | Median earnings $56,450 (field-wide) · 15 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 5 | Princeton University | NJ | Median earnings $62,344 (field-wide) · 51 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 6 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | MI | Median earnings $67,925 · 263 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 7 | Washington University in St Louis | MO | Median earnings $68,359 (field-wide) · 30 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 8 | Vanderbilt University | TN | Median earnings $59,575 (field-wide) · 78 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 9 | Rice University | TX | Median earnings $89,718 (college-wide) · 38 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 10 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | WI | Median earnings $72,988 · 208 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 11 | University of Notre Dame | IN | Median earnings $65,458 (field-wide) · 55 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 12 | University of California-Davis | CA | Median earnings $70,754 · 172 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 13 | University of California-San Diego | CA | Median earnings $72,491 · 183 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 14 | University of Southern California | CA | Median earnings $57,246 · 41 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 15 | University of Maryland-College Park | MD | Median earnings $80,470 · 42 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 16 | The University of Texas at Austin | TX | Median earnings $64,145 · 267 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 17 | Columbia University in the City of New York | NY | Median earnings $62,878 (field-wide) · 30 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 18 | Pomona College | CA | Median earnings $77,779 (college-wide) · 27 graduates last year · 5% of the school's degrees | |
| 19 | Bowdoin College | ME | Median earnings $82,735 (college-wide) · 21 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 20 | Ohio State University-Main Campus | OH | Median earnings $67,381 · 119 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 21 | New York University | NY | Median earnings $68,690 · 58 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 22 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | IL | Median earnings $67,066 (field-wide) · 45 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 23 | Amherst College | MA | Median earnings $77,644 (college-wide) · 24 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 24 | University of California-Santa Barbara | CA | Median earnings $90,694 · 79 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 25 | Barnard College | NY | Median earnings $68,569 (field-wide) · 13 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 26 | University of California-Irvine | CA | Median earnings $56,273 (field-wide) · 32 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 27 | Boston University | MA | Median earnings $64,112 · 129 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 28 | Middlebury College | VT | Median earnings $90,917 (field-wide) · 37 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 29 | Case Western Reserve University | OH | Median earnings $53,604 (field-wide) · 61 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 30 | Swarthmore College | PA | Median earnings $57,754 (field-wide) · 11 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 31 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | WA | Median earnings $58,818 · 270 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 32 | Brown University | RI | Median earnings $60,508 (field-wide) · 39 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 33 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | GA | Median earnings $72,940 · 71 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 34 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | PA | Median earnings $77,336 · 93 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 35 | Purdue University-Main Campus | IN | Median earnings $67,639 · 57 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 36 | Tufts University | MA | Median earnings $76,782 (field-wide) · 52 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 37 | Stony Brook University | NY | Median earnings $60,648 · 105 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 38 | University of Miami | FL | Median earnings $48,310 (field-wide) · 44 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 39 | Hamilton College | NY | Median earnings $78,411 (college-wide) · 15 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 40 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | MN | Median earnings $67,783 · 96 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 41 | Wesleyan University | CT | Median earnings $73,897 (college-wide) · 38 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 42 | Wellesley College | MA | Median earnings $58,285 (field-wide) · 20 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 43 | Texas A&M University-College Station | TX | Median earnings $59,079 · 82 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 44 | Colgate University | NY | Median earnings $57,996 (field-wide) · 44 graduates last year · 5% of the school's degrees | |
| 45 | University of Richmond | VA | Median earnings $69,564 (field-wide) · 32 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 46 | Bates College | ME | Median earnings $69,498 (college-wide) · 32 graduates last year · 6% of the school's degrees | |
| 47 | University of Colorado Boulder | CO | Median earnings $68,488 · 60 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 48 | Smith College | MA | Median earnings $63,133 (field-wide) · 16 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 49 | Brandeis University | MA | Median earnings $61,130 (field-wide) · 19 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 50 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | NJ | Median earnings $79,510 · 65 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees |
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