2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Biometry/Biometrics in the Middle Atlantic 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 for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biometry/Biometrics Major in the Middle Atlantic 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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 74 biometry/biometrics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 31 biometry/biometrics graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biometry/Biometrics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in biometry/biometrics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in biometry/biometrics.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biometry/Biometrics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree biometry/biometrics students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Biometry/Biometrics in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#2 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biometry/Biometrics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Carnegie Mellon University landed the #1 spot on the list. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s biometry/biometrics degrees to 31 students in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Biometry/Biometrics at Carnegie Mellon University

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St John's University - New York
Queens, New York

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend St John’s University - New York. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biometry/Biometrics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. St John’s University - New York is a private not-for-profit institution located in Queens, New York. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full St John’s University - New York Biometry/Biometrics Report

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Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

#5 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cornell University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biometry/Biometrics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This large school is located in Ithaca, New York, and it awarded 34 masters’s biometry/biometrics degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Cornell University 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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