2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Molecular Biology in North Carolina

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Molecular Biology Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,424 people earned their degree in molecular biology, making the major the 366th most popular in the United States.

Across North Carolina, there were 14 molecular biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 molecular biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,088 and $45,388 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality molecular biology programs that also have a lower cost than 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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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Molecular Biology Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Molecular Biology Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Molecular Biology Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Molecular Biology in North Carolina

#1

East Carolina University

Greenville, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$20,685 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Carolina University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Molecular Biology Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina list. ECU is located in Greenville, North Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 5 masters’s molecular biology degrees to qualified students.

ECU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Molecular Biology Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at East Carolina University are $20,685, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Molecular Biology at ECU

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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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