

Focus your biology degree at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio by choosing from tracks in pre-medicine, research, environmental science, pre-health, and general biology. Add the bioinformatics certificate and expand your biology career options to include using computers to analyze biological data, such as DNA. Benefit from Franciscan’s small class sizes, abundant research opportunities, and a core curriculum that integrates the Catholic faith and reason. By majoring in biology at Franciscan, you’ll be prepared for health care and biology careers, and to continue your studies in biology, medicine, dentistry, optometry, veterinary medicine, and physical therapy.
Discover God’s design
At Franciscan, you’ll study life on the microscopic and macroscopic levels, discovering God’s design in plants, animals, ecosystems, and the cosmos. You’ll learn in an atmosphere — in and out of the classroom — that respects the dignity of human life, in harmony with the Catholic understanding of the world God created. Become part of a tight-knit Catholic community led by top-notch professors who are deeply engaged and invested in you and your future. These women and men of God will encourage you to propose your own research projects as well as to work alongside them on advanced projects. In fact, more than 70 percent of Franciscan biology majors participate in faculty-directed undergraduate biology research.
Here are just a few other ways Franciscan’s biology bachelor’s degree program stands out from the rest:
Biology careers are in reach when you major in biology at Franciscan University in Ohio. Graduates of the Catholic-focused biology degree program work in research labs, allied health labs, and science classrooms. They’re also continuing (or have completed) their graduate and professional school education. Franciscan biology majors have an astounding 90-percent acceptance rate to medical school alone.
Graduate and Professional Schools for Biology Majors
Potential Job Titles for Biology Majors
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The Franciscan Institute for Science and Health (FISH) is an initiative of Franciscan University of Steubenville with a mission to provide real-world experience and hands-on training to every Franciscan undergraduate science major and Engineering Dual-Degree student.
FIWH provides and coordinates global health-focused educational trainings and experiences for committed and dedicated undergraduates with a secondary goal of fostering lifelong compassion and career connection to serve the unmet health needs of the neglected people of the world.
Not only will you work on faculty-led biology research on the Franciscan campus in Ohio, you’ll also gain hands-on experience assisting with trailblazing medical research nationwide — from the National Institutes of Health in Washington, D.C., to AVM Biotechnology in Seattle, Washington. You’ll have opportunities to present research at national meetings and to publish peer-reviewed scientific articles.
Grow, develop, and be formed into a more mature biology student by spending a semester in Franciscan’s Austrian program. You’ll expand your biology major in unbelievable ways by traveling to places such as Rome and the holy sites of Christendom, and through courses taught at a 14th-century monastery that also serves as your home.
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