2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Molecular Biology Major in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Molecular Biology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Molecular Biology is the 356th most popular major in the country with 1,394 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 78 molecular biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 molecular biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,218 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Molecular Biology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in molecular biology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in molecular biology.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Molecular Biology Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Molecular Biology in the Southwest Region

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New Mexico State University - Main Campus
Las Cruces, New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Molecular Biology Major in the Southwest Region. NMSU Main Campus is located in Las Cruces, New Mexico and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 doctorate’s molecular biology degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Molecular Biology at New Mexico State University - Main Campus

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Texas Woman's University
Denton, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Woman’s University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Molecular Biology Major in the Southwest Region. Texas Woman’s University is a public institution located in Denton, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Molecular Biology at TWU

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The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, Texas

#2 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Molecular Biology Major in the Southwest Region list. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is a public institution located in Houston, Texas. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 0 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Molecular Biology Report

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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

• *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.