生物学学士学位可帮助学生为政府机构的环境保护，健康与安全或农业等工作做好准备，并为大学，医院，博物馆和工业界的实验室或现场工作技术人员做好准备。它还为学生做好了教授高中生物学的准备，并准备进入医学，牙科，兽医学校以及生命科学的研究生课程。生物学学士学位是希望在不完成生物学学士学位所需的所有生物学，数学，化学和物理学课程的情况下希望对生物学进行深入人文教育的学生的选择。该学位无法为学生做好充分的生命科学或卫生专业研究生准备的准备。
The BS degree in biology prepares students for jobs in government agencies such as environmental protection, health and safety, or agriculture, and for work as laboratory or field work technicians in universities, hospitals, museums, and industry. It also prepares students to teach High School biology and for admission to medical, dental, veterinary schools, and graduate programs in life sciences. The BA degree in biology is an option for students who wish an in-depth humanistic education in biology without completing all of the biology, mathematics, chemistry, and physics courses required for the BS in biology. This degree does not prepare students fully for postgraduate study in the life sciences or health professions.