2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computational Biology Major in the Southwest Region
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Computational Biology is the 797th most popular major in the country with 209 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 23 computational biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 0 computational biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computational Biology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in computational biology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their computational biology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computational Biology Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree computational biology students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computational Biology in the Southwest Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computational Biology Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Baylor College of Medicine landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 4 masters’s computational biology degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read full report on Computational Biology at Baylor College of Medicine
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computational Biology Major in the Southwest Region list. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is a medium-sized public school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 4 masters’s computational biology degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Computational Biology at UTHealth
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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%.
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- *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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