Human Biology
Contains Stem Majors
Add ComparisonIn 2022, the locations with the highest concentration of Human Biology degree recipients are New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, and Seattle, WA. The most common degree awarded to students studying Human Biology is a bachelors degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Human Biology and the types of students that study this field. CUNY Hunter College awards the most degrees in Human Biology in the US, but Northwestern Health Sciences University and CUNY Hunter College have the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Human Biology.
Tuition costs for Human Biology majors are, on average, $9,532 for in-state public colleges, and $39,085 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Human Biology programs are Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above institutions (24 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Public, 4-year or above (1,337 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Human Biology, is Public, 4-year or above (1,337 completions in 2022).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Human Biology programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
CUNY Hunter College has the most Human Biology degree recipients, with 442 degrees awarded in 2022.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Human Biology.
Out of all institutions that offer Human Biology programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, Northwestern Health Sciences University has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Human Biology, with 7.97%.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Human Biology by year.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest growth in degrees awarded for Human Biology.
Demographic information for those who earn a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies in the United States.
The most common degree type these workers hold is a Bachelors Degree. Female employees are more likely to hold Interdisciplinary Studies degrees, and White students are the most common race/ethnicty group awarded degrees in Interdisciplinary Studies (656 students).
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Human Biology are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Associates Degree.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Interdisciplinary Studies are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Human Biology.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Human Biology for each race & ethnicity. White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of Bachelors Degree recipients in Human Biology.
White Female students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and sex.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Latvia that hold Interdisciplinary Studies degrees (4.18 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is India (25,807 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Human Biology field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Human Biology majors need many skills, but most especially Reading Comprehension. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Human Biology majors need more than the average amount of Writing, Reading Comprehension, and Science.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Human Biology majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Writing is very distinctive for majors, but the Reading Comprehension, Writing, and Speaking are the three most important skills for people in the field.
