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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Wisconsin” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Bioinformatics is the 397th most popular major in the country with 1,156 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Wisconsin, there were 14 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,134 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Wisconsin” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in bioinformatics. That schools that top this list have a program in bioinformatics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Wisconsin” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for wisconsin master’s degree bioinformatics students.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Wisconsin that were part of this year’s ranking, Marquette University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 3 degrees to qualified masters’s bioinformatics students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%.
Full Marquette Bioinformatics Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Wisconsin that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Madison landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Madison, Wisconsin, this large public school handed out 8 degrees to qualified masters’s bioinformatics students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%.
Full University of Wisconsin - Madison Bioinformatics Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Medical College of Wisconsin. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in Wisconsin list. Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 degrees to qualified masters’s bioinformatics students in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read more about Bioinformatics at Medical College of Wisconsin
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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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