The TSU biology degree prepares students for diverse career opportunities and makes them highly competitive for a broad range of workforce, graduate, and professional programs. Among these opportunities are: dentistry, medicine, optometry, pharmacy, podiatry, public health, or veterinary medicine; teaching and research at college, and secondary schools; drug counseling, lab technology, or research technology, environmental positions in forestry, fish, or game management, park management, range management, or pollution measurement and control; business and industry positions in landscape architecture, mortuary science, pharmaceutical sales, technical writing, or research industry.

The interdisciplinary courses at TSU prepare students in environmental science, human biology, microbe, plant, and animal biology, molecular biology as well as technological, instrumental, and laboratory oriented fields. The biology curriculum has been designed to provide a thorough education in the classic principles and techniques of the biological sciences and, to relate and apply them to contemporary issues and problems. Opportunities to explore both laboratory and field biology are abundant.

Students have published and presented papers on their research at state and national meetings. Students participate in research projects, during their senior year, often in partnership with local companies, organizations, and research laboratories. During this period, students often complete internships with their future work organizations or gain valuable practical experience in their field. Biology majors also are invited to become members of the national Tri Beta Biological Society. Tri-Beta sponsors trips, special events, and student educational programs.