by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 66 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree bioinformatics students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Skysong. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region. ASU - Skysong is a large school located in Scottsdale, Arizona that handed out 41 masters’s bioinformatics degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Dallas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Richardson, Texas, this large public school awarded 10 degrees to qualified masters’s bioinformatics students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #3 spot on the list. Arizona State University - Tempe is located in Tempe, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 14 masters’s bioinformatics degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, 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 New Mexico State University - Main Campus. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region list. Las Cruces, New Mexico is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s bioinformatics degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Bioinformatics Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at El Paso landed the #5 spot on the list. The University of Texas at El Paso is a large public school situated in El Paso, Texas. It awarded 0 masters’s bioinformatics degrees in 2020-2021.
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