2023 Most Focused Colleges for Biometry/Biometrics in the Great Lakes Region

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 Highly Focused on Biometry/Biometrics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 148 people earned their degree in biometry/biometrics, making the major the 926th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1 biometry/biometrics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Biometry/Biometrics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in biometry/biometrics. That schools that top this list have a program in biometry/biometrics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools Highly Focused on Biometry/Biometrics Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region biometry/biometrics students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Biometry/Biometrics in the Great Lakes Region

1

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

#6 overall quality in Great Lakes

$50,802 Average Early-Career Earnings

$22,543 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Biometry/Biometrics Major in the Great Lakes Region. UW - Madison is located in Madison, Wisconsin and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 ’s biometry/biometrics degrees to qualified students.

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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.

Read full report on Biometry/Biometrics at UW - Madison

2

Kent State University at Kent
Kent, Ohio

$38,945 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,588 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kent State University at Kent. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Biometry/Biometrics Major in the Great Lakes Region. Kent State University at Kent is a large school located in Kent, Ohio that handed out 0 ’s biometry/biometrics degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Kent State Biometry/Biometrics 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

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.

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