Biology (B.S.)
The biology major at UNG is a versatile program that allows you to explore the biological sciences as a whole, while also diving into specialty areas of the field.
While there are courses all biology majors are required to take, there is flexibility in the curriculum to choose courses that will help you work toward your career goals. For example, if you want to study wildlife management in graduate school, you could choose elective courses in ornithology and conservation biology. If you're interested in a professional program, then you could take upper-level electives that satisfy the admissions requirements for your dream program.
By the time you graduate, you'll have had the opportunity to volunteer in the community, found friends who love science as much as you, and even completed undergraduate research one-on-one with a professor in fields like microbiology or marine biology.
Degree Type
Bachelor of Science
Campus Availability
The Biology Major Experience
Biology, today more than ever, is the application of chemistry, physics, and mathematics to life processes. We offer a rigorous program that requires knowledge of basic science concepts to understand biology, along with a reasonable amount of quantitative analysis in the form of probability, statistics, graph interpretation and other mathematical applications.
What Your Journey Could Look Like
We recommend that our majors begin their first biology course with at least some background in chemistry, and we encourage students to take college chemistry soon after entering our department. We favor mathematics and physics over additional biology courses in high school (e.g. anatomy). This is not only a recommendation for our department, but all University of North Georgia science courses, and any university science program in general.
Define Your Own College Experience
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Make Your Money Count
Take control of your personal finances. Attend budgeting workshops, make a financial action plan or connect with a money mentor.
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Find Friends for Life
Members of our fraternities, sororities, and gender-inclusive organizations find friendship in community service & leadership.
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The World is Your Lab
Get hands-on research experience in field ecology and conservation in Southern Africa, or study tropical reef ecology in Belize.
Advising Areas
Biology majors can choose an advising area that allows your academic and faculty advisors to know your specific goals so that they can help you on your journey.
Where Can a Major in Biology Lead You?
Where Our Students Have Interned
- Tyson Foods
- U.S. Forest Service
- Georgia Aquarium
- Mill Creek High School
- University of Nevada
Where Our Students Found Jobs
- Northside Hospital
- Elachee Nature Center
- Georgia DNR
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- National Army Training Center
Where Our Students Have Gone to Grad School
- University of North Georgia
- University of Georgia
- University of Pennsylvania
- Clemson University
- Johns Hopkins University
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