2024 Best Genetics Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
111Genetics Degrees Awarded
Genetics isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #206 in popularity out of 395 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for genetics students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 111 degrees in genetics during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of genetics school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for genetics schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Genetics Schools in the Southwest Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the genetics degrees they offer, see the list below.
It's hard to beat The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston if you wish to pursue a degree in genetics. Located in the large city of Houston, UTHealth is a public university with a medium-sized student population.
There were roughly 10 genetics students who graduated with this degree at UTHealth in the most recent data year.
Texas A&M University - College Station is a great option for students interested in a degree in genetics. Texas A&M College Station is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of College Station.
There were approximately 67 genetics students who graduated with this degree at Texas A&M College Station in the most recent year we have data available.
New Mexico State University - Main Campus is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in genetics. Located in the suburb of Las Cruces, NMSU Main Campus is a public university with a fairly large student population.
There were approximately 12 genetics students who graduated with this degree at NMSU Main Campus in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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