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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Molecular Biology in the Southeast Region

4 Ranked Colleges
85 Degrees Awarded
$24,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Molecular Biology Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Molecular Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Molecular Biology is the 366th most popular major in the country with 1,424 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 132 molecular biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 85 molecular biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Molecular Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in molecular biology. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent molecular biology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the molecular biology program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The molecular biology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Molecular Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region”.

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Best Value Molecular Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree molecular biology students.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Molecular Biology in the Southeast Region

#1

Lipscomb University

Nashville, Tennessee
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lipscomb University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Molecular Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. This small school is located in Nashville, Tennessee, and it awarded 21 bachelors’s molecular biology degrees in 2019-2020.

Lipscomb also took the #2 spot in our “Best Molecular Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Lipscomb is $24,749 for southeast region bachelor’s degree molecular biology students.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Molecular Biology at Lipscomb

#2

Florida Institute of Technology

Melbourne, Florida
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida Institute of Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Molecular Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Melbourne, Florida is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s molecular biology degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree molecular biology students list, Florida Tech has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Molecular Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $31,097 for southeast region bachelor’s degree molecular biology students per year to attend Florida Tech.

Read more about Molecular Biology at Florida Tech

#3

Stetson University

DeLand, Florida
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Molecular Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Stetson University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in DeLand, Florida, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 15 degrees to qualified bachelors’s molecular biology students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Stetson, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Molecular Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $23,568 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Molecular Biology students per year to attend Stetson University.

The low student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%.

Full Stetson Molecular Biology Report

#4

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Molecular Biology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Vanderbilt University is located in Nashville, Tennessee and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 39 bachelors’s molecular biology degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Vanderbilt, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Molecular Biology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $19,432 for southeast region bachelor’s degree molecular biology students per year to attend Vanderbilt.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Molecular Biology at Vanderbilt University

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Notes and References

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

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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