by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Bioinformatics is the 397th most popular major in the country with 1,156 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 97 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 26 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in bioinformatics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their bioinformatics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The bioinformatics school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region”.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Edward’s University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region list. St. Edward’s University is a small school located in Austin, Texas that handed out 2 bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Baylor University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region. Baylor University is located in Waco, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region list. Portales, New Mexico is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Bioinformatics at Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region list. ASU - Tempe is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 14 bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Bioinformatics at Arizona State University - Tempe
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Tucson, Arizona, this large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s bioinformatics students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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