okay so I want to finally address a question that I have been getting for a long time now I just
prioritize other videos so sorry I haven't gotten to it yet but what are the best universities to
attend for marine biology if you think you might want to be a marine biologist which I know many
of you do what university is the best one for you to go to okay so I'm gonna try to answer this as
honestly as I possibly can there are many many many universities and colleges around the world
and many of them are awesome for different disciplines right so what I would say is the
very best universities for a career in marine biology are going to be universities that have
a strong research program in biological sciences and/or marine sciences if you can get both that's
fantastic but either one of those will be I think pretty critical for that University to serve you
well what I mean specifically is you want to go to a university that has active researchers that
are working on the kinds of topics of research that interests you so if you're just broadly
interested in marine biology it means you're broadly interested in biology so they don't
have to be marine people you don't have to be on a coastline I was inland I was in Austin Texas a
fair way away from a marine environment you don't need that you need people that are experts in the
kinds again of topics and questions that interest you most and the reason you want that is because
you want to be able to interact with those people you want to be able to take classes from and them
and learn from them in the traditional school sense but you also want to try your best to
learn from them through internships and direct interactions where you're actually doing research
as maybe a volunteer lab assistant in their lab group this is where you will learn the most in
college. undergraduates that get research experience are far more likely to succeed
in graduate school and to even discover that they want to go to graduate school to learn that they
really want to go otherwise if you don't have any research experience and you think you want to go
to grad school to be a researcher you don't really know what you're asking for so I would
argue you really need to get that experience and to get that you need to go to a university
that has active researchers working on topics that interest you and you may not know exactly
what topic interests you the most so I would say the best universities would be ones that
have individuals that work on multiple topics that sound really cool to you they sound cool
to you then you can start again interacting with those folks learning more about those things when
you're in college and then make your best you know your most informed decision about which
of those areas of research are the ones that you actually want to directly get your hands dirty in
you want to get in there and get some work done in there and learn if it's for really for you
so that's really it if you thought I was gonna name off specific universities I don't need to
do that because really what it comes down to is you have to do the homework you have to
go in research which universities have active researchers have a strong department of biology
or biological sciences strong marine science department and then much more importantly
I would argue that even that is what kind of folks are working there what kind of research
are they doing what what kinds of professional researchers could you develop a relationship
with and work with and be mentored by those are the kinds of questions that you really want to
be asking yourself in answering and so listing off this University is the best this universe is
the best you know I could speak to that a little bit about certain regions of the world but there's
great universities all over the place and as an undergraduate it's not essential that you go to
a university that is the best at marine biology like you don't need that at that point you need
research experience from a legitimate respected University that has active researchers that are
interested in getting undergraduates involved with their work that's the number one thing I
would argue so lucky for you there are many many universities that would fall under that umbrella
and as you are more aware of the specifics of your interests then you can narrow that list down in
many cases considerably so I hope that helps and if you have more specific questions about
this leave them in the comments and I will try my best to address them in future videos thanks for
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