2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biostatistics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biostatistics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 1,275 people earned their degree in biostatistics, making the major the 382nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 334 biostatistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 biostatistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biostatistics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in biostatistics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their biostatistics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biostatistics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree biostatistics students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biostatistics in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

University of Scranton
Scranton, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Scranton. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biostatistics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 6 degrees to qualified bachelors’s biostatistics students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Scranton Biostatistics Report

2

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#2 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biostatistics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Carnegie Mellon University landed the #2 spot on the list. Carnegie Mellon is a private not-for-profit institution located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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 Carnegie Mellon University Biostatistics Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biostatistics

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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