2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Bioinformatics in the Plains States Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 1,100 people earned their degree in bioinformatics, making the major the 446th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 50 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,438 and $39,783 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in bioinformatics. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent bioinformatics programs, but they also cost less that 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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Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree bioinformatics students.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Bioinformatics in the Plains States Region

#1

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Minneapolis, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

$28,845 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region. UMN Twin Cities is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 13 masters’s bioinformatics degrees to qualified students.

UMN Twin Cities not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Bioinformatics Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities are $28,845.

Read more about Bioinformatics at UMN Twin Cities

#2

Saint Louis University

Saint Louis, Missouri

#2 in overall quality

$22,074 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Louis University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region. Saint Louis University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Saint Louis, Missouri. It awarded 7 masters’s bioinformatics degrees in 2019-2020.

SLU also made our “Best Bioinformatics Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at SLU are $22,074, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full SLU Bioinformatics Report

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Bioinformatics

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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