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1801 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122-6096
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Biotechnology Schools in Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA (population: 1,445,993) has four biotechnology schools within its city limits. University of Pennsylvania, the highest ranked school in the city with a biotechnology program, has a total student population of 24,599. It is the 5th highest ranked school in the USA and the highest in the state of Pennsylvania.

Biotechnology students from Philadelphia schools who go on to become biotechnologists, bioengineers, biomedical engineers, biophysicists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 166,860 people working as medical and clinical laboratory technologists alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $55,620. Also, Biochemists and biophysicists make on average $88,550 per year and there are about 22,860 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Philadelphia Metropolitan area alone, there are 2,240 employed biochemists and biophysicists earning an average salary of $106,220. Medical and clinical laboratory technologists in this area earn $59,260/yr and there are 2,790 employed.

Philadelphia lies in Philadelphia county, which is one of the 32 counties in Pennsylvania. Overall, the Philadelphia Metropolitan area has 1,832,880 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.6% unemployment rate, $23.24/hr average worker wage, and a $48,340 average annual salary. Thus, about 1.523 out of every 1000 jobs in Philadelphia are held by medical and clinical laboratory technologists, and 1.223/1000 are held by biochemists and biophysicists.

Of the 4 biotechnology schools in Philadelphia, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Drexel University comes out as the most expensive ($31,832/yr) for biotechnology students, with Temple University as the lowest, reported at only $15,715/yr.

Biotechnology Programs in Philadelphia


University of Pennsylvania
  • Biotechnology
    Levels offered: Masters
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
  • Biotechnology
    Levels offered: Certificate

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