2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biomathematics & Bioinformatics in Tennessee

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biomathematics Major in Tennessee” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 2,957 people earned their degree in biomathematics and bioinformatics, making the major the 170th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, biomathematics and bioinformatics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $70,004 and had an average of $18,475 in loans still to pay off.

Across Tennessee, there were 35 biomathematics and bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 biomathematics and bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,466 and $26,819 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biomathematics Major in Tennessee” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in biomathematics and bioinformatics. That schools that top this list have a program in biomathematics and bioinformatics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biomathematics Major in Tennessee

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biomathematics & Bioinformatics in Tennessee

1

Rhodes College
Memphis, Tennessee

#5 overall quality in Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rhodes College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biomathematics Major in Tennessee list. Located in Memphis, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s biomathematics students in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

Full Rhodes College Biomathematics & Bioinformatics Report

2

Lipscomb University
Nashville, Tennessee

#6 overall quality in Tennessee

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biomathematics Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Lipscomb University landed the #2 spot on the list. Lipscomb University is located in Nashville, Tennessee and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s biomathematics degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read more about Biomathematics & Bioinformatics at Lipscomb 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

• *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.

Credits

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