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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Bioinformatics Major in Michigan for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 1,156 people earned their degree in bioinformatics, making the major the 397th most popular in the United States.
Across Michigan, there were 46 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,004 and $27,379 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Bioinformatics Major in Michigan for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in bioinformatics. To top this list, a school must have a successful bioinformatics program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Bioinformatics Major in Michigan for a Bachelor’s”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Bioinformatics Major in Michigan for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan Technological University landed the #1 spot on the list. Michigan Technological University is a public institution located in Houghton, Michigan. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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 Michigan Technological University Bioinformatics Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kettering University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Bioinformatics Major in Michigan for a Bachelor’s. Kettering is located in Flint, Michigan and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Bioinformatics at Kettering
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Davenport University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Bioinformatics Major in Michigan for a Bachelor’s. Located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s bioinformatics students in 2020-2021.
Full Davenport University 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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