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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. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Well Attended Bioinformatics Major in Utah for a Bachelor’s” ranking.
In 2020-2021, 1,156 people earned their degree in bioinformatics, making the major the 397th most popular in the United States.
Across Utah, there were 41 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 41 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,652 and $24,483 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Bioinformatics Major in Utah for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree 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.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Bioinformatics Major in Utah for a Bachelor’s”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Bioinformatics Major in Utah for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Brigham Young University - Provo landed the #1 spot on the list. Provo, Utah is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees to 40 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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 92%.
Read more about Bioinformatics at BYU
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Dixie State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Bioinformatics Major in Utah for a Bachelor’s. Located in Saint George, Utah, this fairly large public school awarded 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s bioinformatics students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Bioinformatics at Dixie State University
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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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