Salt Lake City, UT (population: 184,856) has four biology schools within its city limits. University of Utah, the highest ranked school in the city with a biology program, has a total student population of 29,284. It is the 129th highest ranked school in the USA and the highest in the state of Utah. To learn more about biology programs in Salt Lake City, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of biology professors at University of Utah such as Michael Bastiani, Dennis Bramble, David Carrier, Brent Cooper, Wayne Davis, and Renee Dawson.
Biology students from Salt Lake City 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. In fact, in the Salt Lake City area alone, there are 100 employed zoologists and wildlife biologists earning an average salary of $50,790. Biological scientists in this area earn $60,110/yr and there are 140 employed.
Salt Lake City lies in Salt Lake county, which is one of the 16 counties in Utah. Overall, the Salt Lake City area has 609,730 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.8% unemployment rate, $19.97/hr average worker wage, and a $41,530 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.227 out of every 1000 jobs in Salt Lake City are held by biological scientists, and 0.157/1000 are held by zoologists and wildlife biologists.
Of the 4 biology schools in Salt Lake City, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Westminster College comes out as the most expensive ($18,841/yr) for biology students, with Salt Lake Community College as the lowest, reported at only $9,987/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Salt Lake City |
| West Valley City | UT | 125,842 | 2 | 24.4175 | 17 | 7.5 miles |
| Bountiful | UT | 45,723 | 1 | 31.5415 | 2 | 7.6 miles |
| Taylorsville | UT | 59,591 | 0 | - | 0 | 8.3 miles |
| Murray | UT | 47,260 | 5 | 23.4081 | 160 | 9.2 miles |
| South Jordan | UT | 57,903 | 1 | 13.1531 | 4 | 15.4 miles |
| Riverton | UT | 43,424 | 1 | 20.2082 | 84 | 18.0 miles |
| Ogden | UT | 83,448 | 4 | 19.4308 | 199 | 31.2 miles |
| Orem | UT | 95,419 | 4 | 27.4 | 168 | 35.3 miles |
| Provo | UT | 120,524 | 6 | 30.5292 | 247 | 39.7 miles |