2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Biology in the Far Western US Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Computational Biology Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Computational Biology is the 848th most popular major in the country with 175 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 19 computational biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 computational biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,342 and $136,270 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great computational biology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the computational biology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Computational Biology Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Computational Biology Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Biology in the Far Western US Region

#1

University of California - Berkeley

Berkeley, California

#1 in overall quality

$29,347 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Berkeley. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Computational Biology Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region list. Berkeley, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s computational biology degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

UC Berkeley not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Computational Biology Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of California - Berkeley are $29,347.

Read full report on Computational Biology at UC Berkeley

#1

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California

#1 in overall quality

$48,715 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Computational Biology Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern California landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Los Angeles, California, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 9 degrees to qualified doctorate’s computational biology students in 2019-2020.

USC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Computational Biology Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Southern California are $48,715, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Computational Biology at University of Southern California

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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