Louisville, KY (population: 556,482) has four biology schools within its city limits. University of Louisville, the highest ranked school in the city with a biology program, has a total student population of 21,016. It is the 1677th highest ranked school in the USA and the 14th highest in the state of Kentucky (#1 is Centre College). To learn more about biology programs in Louisville, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of biology professors at University of Louisville such as James Alexander, Ronald Atlas, Jessica Buckingham, Margaret Carreiro, Gary Cobbs, and Cynthia Corbitt.
Biology students from Louisville schools who go on to become biologists, marine biologists, wildlife biologists, molecular biologists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 29,630 people working as biological scientists alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $69,430. Also, Zoologists and wildlife biologists make on average $60,670 per year and there are about 17,460 of them employed in the US today.
Louisville lies in Jefferson county, which is one of the 55 counties in Kentucky. Overall, the Louisville-Jefferson County-IN area has 593,940 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.7% unemployment rate, $19.22/hr average worker wage, and a $39,970 average annual salary.
Of the 4 biology schools in Louisville, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Spalding University comes out as the most expensive ($22,380/yr) for biology students, with Jefferson Community and Technical College as the lowest, reported at only $8,103/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Louisville |
| Jeffersonville | IN | - | 3 | 16.878 | 5 | 4.0 miles |
| New Albany | IN | - | 1 | 50.4945 | 53 | 6.4 miles |
| Hanover | IN | - | 1 | 62.3933 | 55 | 37.1 miles |
| Saint Catharine | KY | - | 1 | 13.7868 | 38 | 44.1 miles |
| Frankfort | KY | - | 1 | 45.3097 | 44 | 47.1 miles |
| Lexington | KY | 279,146 | 12 | 25.7509 | 248 | 70.7 miles |
| Florence | KY | - | 8 | 23.3148 | 213 | 80.8 miles |
| Crestview Hills | KY | - | 1 | 24.073 | 65 | 83.8 miles |
| Covington | KY | 43,469 | 3 | 25.6472 | 61 | 87.4 miles |
| Oakland City | IN | - | 1 | 58.4328 | 69 | 87.5 miles |
| Cincinnati | OH | 332,807 | 36 | 23.3732 | 744 | 92.0 miles |
| Bowling Green | KY | 56,941 | 5 | 29.5084 | 365 | 94.6 miles |
| Greenwood | IN | 50,562 | 2 | 33.0452 | 104 | 98.9 miles |
| Evansville | IN | 115,666 | 5 | 36.7615 | 255 | 99.4 miles |
| Somerset | KY | - | 1 | 14.9987 | 47 | 99.8 miles |