<p>Is Princeton strong in science?</p>
<p>try barrons</p>
<p>Princeton’s biology faculty is generally strong, although weaker than some of its peer competitors.</p>
<p>This is the US News ranking of biology departments. Any area you’re specifically interested in?</p>
<ol>
<li> Stanford University (CA) 4.9</li>
<li> Harvard University (MA) 4.8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4.8
University of California–Berkeley 4.8</li>
<li> California Institute of Technology 4.6
Johns Hopkins University (MD) 4.6</li>
<li> Cornell University (NY) 4.5
Yale University (CT) 4.5</li>
<li> Scripps Research Institute (CA) ** 4.5
9. Princeton University (NJ) 4.4
University of California–San Francisco 4.4
Washington University in St. Louis 4.4</li>
<li>Duke University (NC) 4.3
Rockefeller University (NY) 4.3
University of California–San Diego 4.3
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor 4.3
University of Wisconsin–Madison 4.3</li>
<li>University of California–Davis 4.2
University of Washington 4.2</li>
<li>Columbia University (NY) 4.1
University of Chicago 4.1
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center–Dallas 4.1</li>
</ol>
<p>Does Princeton offer animal behavior and/or ethology through either the biology or psych dept’s? Do they have their own animal colonies? primates? study abroad? Thanks</p>
<p>The Princeton biology department maintains a page on [animal</a> behavior studies](<a href=“http://www.eeb.princeton.edu/core%20areas/behavior_physiology.html]animal”>http://www.eeb.princeton.edu/core%20areas/behavior_physiology.html), and Princeton maintains a full listing of the available [url=<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/pr/catalog/ua/05/164.htm]undergraduate[/url”>http://www.princeton.edu/pr/catalog/ua/05/164.htm]undergraduate[/url</a>] and [url=<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/pr/catalog/gsa/05/135.htm]graduate[/url”>http://www.princeton.edu/pr/catalog/gsa/05/135.htm]graduate[/url</a>] courses in biology. If you want more specific information, I suggest emailing the department representative directly. He’s in the best position to provide you with accurate details.</p>
<p>Thanks. I’ve looked in the past and saw individual icourses, but not a “program”. Are you a student or teacher? Any idea if it’s a concentrated area of study (like Cornell’s)?</p>
<p>I’m not familiar with Princeton’s biology program per se, but I don’t believe they have an undergraduate “program” in animal behavior. If you wanted to pursue that topic as a specialty, however, I imagine you could (through graduate classes, directed reading, senior / junior papers, etc.).</p>
<p>Again, though, I strongly encourage you to simply ask the department. They’ll be able to answer any of your questions better than anyone on this board can.</p>
<p>Talk to the people in EEB - Ecology and Environmental Biology. They have a program in Costa Rica I believe.</p>
<p>Thank you-I found the EEB web site</p>
<p>The Princeton EEB department actually has a lot of study abroad programs for its size. EEB has 3 in fact: Marine Biology in Bermuda, Tropical Biology in Panama, and Tropical Biology in Kenya, which is a new program, although EEB has had previous programs in Kenya for some time at the Mpala Research Center there. </p>
<p>Juniors do a field study during the summer after their junior year, and many students arrange to do this overseas, some as far as China. </p>
<p>The variety and opportunities provided by EEBs programs abroad very much bolster this small department’s appeal.</p>
<p>That US News & World Report ranking - is that undergrad or graduate departments?</p>
<p>It must be graduate, since TSRI only has a graduate program.</p>
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<p>It’s a ranking of PhD programs. The point is, though, that the ranking is pretty much a measure of faculty strength and departmental resources. How this information should be interpreted for the purpose of analyzing an undergraduate program is debatable, and very much depends on the individual in question (it’s much more relevant, for instance, to someone who wants to pursue high-level / advanced study or later go into a PhD program than someone who isn’t particularly interested in that).</p>