According to the degree evaluation results of the Ministry of Education, the best universities in biology major are Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Sun Yat-sen University, Wuhan University, China Agricultural University, Zhejiang University, Peking Union Medical College, Tsinghua University Medical College, Nanjing University, Xiamen University, Nankai University, University of Science and Technology of China, Huazhong Agricultural University, Beijing Normal University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shandong University, Sichuan University, Lanzhou University, Northeast Forestry University and so on.

Peking University ranks first in biology in China, and its leading edge has been greatly expanded after the merger of Beijing Medical University (now Peking University Medical Science Department). Peking University College of Life Sciences has five national key disciplines (botany, zoology, physiology, cell biology, biochemistry and molecular biology), two national key laboratories (protein State Key Laboratory of Engineering and Plant Genetic Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Biofilm and Membrane Bioengineering), with 39 professors and 24 associate professors. Three academicians (Zhai Zhonghe, Xu Zhihong, Zhu), Changjiang Scholar 13 (Cheng Heping, Long, Lin Shuo, Deng Hongkui, Jin,,,, Zhu Yuxian, Zhang Chuanmao, Wang Shiqiang), winner of National Outstanding Youth Fund 14.