2023 Most Well Attended Biophysics Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Biophysics Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Biophysics is the 732nd most popular major in the country with 269 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 10 biophysics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 biophysics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Biophysics Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in biophysics. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular biophysics programs in the United States.
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Most Well Attended Biophysics Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree biophysics students.
Top 3 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biophysics in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Biophysics Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s. ASU - Tempe is a public institution located in Tempe, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.
Full ASU - Tempe Biophysics Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Methodist University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Biophysics Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s. Dallas, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s biophysics degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Biophysics at Southern Methodist University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Christian University. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Biophysics Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s. Located in Fort Worth, Texas, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s biophysics students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Biophysics at TCU
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References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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