2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Bioinformatics in District of Columbia

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in District of Columbia” 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 District of Columbia, there were 39 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 39 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,645 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in District of Columbia” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in bioinformatics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in bioinformatics.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in District of Columbia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in District of Columbia”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Bioinformatics in District of Columbia

1

George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#2 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend George Washington University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in District of Columbia. George Washington University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 25 masters’s bioinformatics degrees in 2020-2021.

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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Bioinformatics at George Washington University

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Georgetown University
Washington, District of Columbia

#1 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Georgetown University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in District of Columbia. Georgetown is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 14 masters’s bioinformatics degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.

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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

Footnotes

• *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.

Credits

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