The Department of Biology offers a Master's program and attracts the largest number of undergraduate majors in Arts & Sciences at William & Mary. Representing a wide diversity of research and teaching interests among twenty-three full time faculty members and a number of faculty research associates, our goal is to encourage and facilitate independent thinking and creative investigation in both the laboratory and classroom.

Biology occupies more than 53,000 square feet in Millington Hall on the main campus, as well as a building for ecological and population studies on the edge of campus, and has available for research and coursework the College Woods, Lake Matoaka, and a house on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.