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2022 Best Value Biomathematics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

5 Ranked Colleges
31 Degrees Awarded
$21,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Biomathematics Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Biomathematics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Biomathematics & Bioinformatics is the 178th most popular major in the country with 2,777 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, biomathematics and bioinformatics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $71,400 and had an average of $34,866 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 159 biomathematics and bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 biomathematics and bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Biomathematics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in biomathematics and bioinformatics. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality biomathematics and bioinformatics programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the biomathematics and bioinformatics program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Biomathematics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree biomathematics students.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biomathematics & Bioinformatics in the Southwest Region

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Biomathematics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. Arizona State University - Tempe is located in Tempe, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 17 bachelors’s biomathematics degrees to qualified students.

ASU - Tempe not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Biomathematics & Bioinformatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for ASU - Tempe is $11,706 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Biomathematics students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Full ASU - Tempe Biomathematics & Bioinformatics Report

#2

University of St. Thomas

Houston, Texas
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Biomathematics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of St. Thomas landed the #2 spot on the list. University of St. Thomas is a small school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 1 bachelors’s biomathematics degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree biomathematics students list, UST has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Biomathematics & Bioinformatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $18,476 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Biomathematics students per year to attend UST.

Read more about Biomathematics & Bioinformatics at UST

#3

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arizona. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Biomathematics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in Tucson, Arizona, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s biomathematics degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Arizona also took the #3 spot in our “Best Biomathematics & Bioinformatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Arizona is $15,016 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Biomathematics students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full University of Arizona Biomathematics & Bioinformatics Report

#4

Baylor University

Waco, Texas
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Baylor University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Biomathematics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. This fairly large school is located in Waco, Texas, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s biomathematics degrees in 2019-2020.

Baylor not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Biomathematics & Bioinformatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $36,039 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Biomathematics students per year to attend Baylor University.

With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Biomathematics & Bioinformatics at Baylor University

#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Edward’s University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Biomathematics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. This small school is located in Austin, Texas, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s biomathematics degrees in 2019-2020.

St. Edward’s University also took the #5 spot in our “Best Biomathematics & Bioinformatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $24,833 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Biomathematics students per year to attend St. Edward’s University.

Read more about Biomathematics & Bioinformatics at Saint Edward’s University

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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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