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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 1,156 people earned their degree in bioinformatics, making the major the 397th most popular in the United States.
Across the Plains States region, there were 54 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree 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 plains states region bachelor’s degree bioinformatics students.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Fontbonne University landed the #1 spot on the list. Fontbonne University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Saint Louis, Missouri. It awarded 4 bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Full Fontbonne University Bioinformatics Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Nebraska at Omaha. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Plains States Region. Omaha, Nebraska is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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%.
Read full report on Bioinformatics at University of Nebraska at Omaha
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Plains States Region list. Ames, Iowa is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Iowa State Bioinformatics 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
- *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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