2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Bioinformatics in Texas

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Bioinformatics is the 446th most popular major in the country with 1,100 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Texas, there were 27 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in bioinformatics. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality bioinformatics programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the bioinformatics program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Bioinformatics in Texas

#1

Baylor University

Waco, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$36,039 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Baylor University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas. Baylor University is a fairly large school located in Waco, Texas that handed out 7 bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees in 2019-2020.

Baylor not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Bioinformatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list. The estimated yearly cost for Baylor is $36,039 for Texas Bachelor’s Degree Bioinformatics students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Bioinformatics at Baylor University

#2

Saint Edward's University

Austin, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$24,833 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Edward’s University landed the #2 spot on the list. Austin, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

St. Edward’s University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Bioinformatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list. The estimated yearly cost for Saint Edward’s University is $24,833 for Texas Bachelor’s Degree Bioinformatics students.

Read more about Bioinformatics at Saint Edward’s 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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