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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking.
Bioinformatics is the 397th most popular major in the country with 1,156 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 48 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 41 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,089 and $26,296 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in bioinformatics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in bioinformatics.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree bioinformatics students.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Brigham Young University - Provo landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Provo, Utah, and it awarded 40 bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Bioinformatics at BYU
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dixie State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. This fairly large school is located in Saint George, Utah, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Dixie State College Bioinformatics Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Montana. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. UM is a public institution located in Missoula, Montana. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Bioinformatics at UM
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lewis - Clark State College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Lewis - Clark State College is a small school located in Lewiston, Idaho that handed out 0 bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Bioinformatics at Lewis - Clark State College
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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
- *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.
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